On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:09:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> Well that is annoying. I don't have a smart phone, so I can't really test

If you have a Mac, you can get the iOS emulator that comes with Xcode for free. Something similar is probably available for Android as well.

You can't really test the "feel" of a website (i.e. how well a more complicated app fits in with the rest of the ecosystem), but for just checking the layout of a page, this has worked well for me.

David

Am 20.10.2013 20:12, schrieb David Nadlinger:
> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:09:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Well that is annoying. I don't have a smart phone, so I can't really test
>
> If you have a Mac, you can get the iOS emulator that comes with Xcode
> for free. Something similar is probably available for Android as well.
>
> You can't really test the "feel" of a website (i.e. how well a more
> complicated app fits in with the rest of the ecosystem), but for just
> checking the layout of a page, this has worked well for me.
>
> David

Yes, although if the computer lacks virtualization support it is really slow.

--
Paulo

On 20 October 2013 20:13, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:
> Am 20.10.2013 20:12, schrieb David Nadlinger:
>
>> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:09:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>> Well that is annoying. I don't have a smart phone, so I can't really test
>>
>>
>> If you have a Mac, you can get the iOS emulator that comes with Xcode for free. Something similar is probably available for Android as well.
>>
>> You can't really test the "feel" of a website (i.e. how well a more complicated app fits in with the rest of the ecosystem), but for just checking the layout of a page, this has worked well for me.
>>
>> David
>
>
> Yes, although if the computer lacks virtualization support it is really slow.
>

Your emulating iOS - regardless of virtualisation support or not it is equally slow.  :o)


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';

Am 20.10.2013 21:24, schrieb Iain Buclaw:
> On 20 October 2013 20:13, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> wrote:
>> Am 20.10.2013 20:12, schrieb David Nadlinger:
>>
>>> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:09:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well that is annoying. I don't have a smart phone, so I can't really test
>>>
>>>
>>> If you have a Mac, you can get the iOS emulator that comes with Xcode
>>> for free. Something similar is probably available for Android as well.
>>>
>>> You can't really test the "feel" of a website (i.e. how well a more
>>> complicated app fits in with the rest of the ecosystem), but for just
>>> checking the layout of a page, this has worked well for me.
>>>
>>> David
>>
>>
>> Yes, although if the computer lacks virtualization support it is really
>> slow.
>>
>
> Your emulating iOS - regardless of virtualisation support or not it is
> equally slow.  :o)
>
>

I was speaking about Android.

The iOS simulator is quite fast in comparisasion with the Android one.

--
Paulo

On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:12:06 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 18:09:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Well that is annoying. I don't have a smart phone, so I can't really test
>
> If you have a Mac, you can get the iOS emulator that comes with Xcode for free. Something similar is probably available for Android as well.
>
> You can't really test the "feel" of a website (i.e. how well a more complicated app fits in with the rest of the ecosystem), but for just checking the layout of a page, this has worked well for me.
>
> David

Well, there isn't much I can do about it, short of hosting my own blog. Looking at other hosted blogs doesn't lead me to believing that such problems are solved, I've taken the same approach and just set a max-width of 500.

Frankly, I'm with Adam on the everything sucks side.

On 2013-10-20 21:07:40 +0000, Paulo Pinto <pjmlp@progtools.org> said:

> Am 20.10.2013 21:24, schrieb Iain Buclaw:
>> Your emulating iOS - regardless of virtualisation support or not it is
>> equally slow.  :o)
> 
> I was speaking about Android.
> 
> The iOS simulator is quite fast in comparisasion with the Android one.

Indeed. And that's because it isn't an emulator. What you run in the iOS simulator is a x86 version of an iOS app linked against the iOS simulator SDK and it runs as a regular OS X process. This works fine because the underlying OS is pretty much the same.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin@michelf.ca
http://michelf.ca

On 10/18/13 9:52 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> Do to the recent slices discussion I did some investigation on what is
> different in Go. Thus, created this
>
> http://he-the-great.livejournal.com/48672.html

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1owpmp/slices_in_d_vs_go/

Andrei

What's this talk of emulators? Just Google the width of smartphone screens and try resizing your browser window with similar font size settings. It should be close enough to design something decent for phones with.

Oh, and cool article. I liked it.

On Tuesday, 22 October 2013 at 20:49:04 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> What's this talk of emulators? Just Google the width of smartphone screens and try resizing your browser window with similar font size settings. It should be close enough to design something decent for phones with.

Well, I can't say that LJ would use the same desktop formatting for such devices. I'd have to modify the User Agent to pretend it was not a desktop. Anyway, 500 seems good for desktop and mobile. Wouldn't really want to go lower.

Thanks and it seems it was quite a hit on Reddit too.