Hey all,
Im tweaking a website for ease-of-use by iPad users. A lot of clickable fields in the original site are too small for finger-based tapping, so I figured a quick solution would be to use the CSS3 transform:scaleY() property to make the whole site just a bit taller and easier to tap.
The problem is, when I scaleY(1.25) any html, Safari/iPad doesn't seem to acknowledge that the total SIZE of the page has changed, and the bottom 20% (.25 out of 1.25) is inaccessible even when you scroll down!
I'll attach a simple sample HTML file which gives a perfect example of the problem: I created a bunch of lines reading "Test xx" where xx runs from 50 down to 1. As you can see (if you put this html file up and browse to it with an iPad), the bottom 10 lines are cut off at the bottom of the page!
Here's the html:
Am I misunderstanding some core concept about scaling, viewports, etc? I know the iPad interprets web-pages differently than standard web browsers to allow for different screen- and viewport-sizes, but the behavior I'm seeing just doesn't add up to me! Scaling the <body> of my page shouldn't push portions of it to some inaccessible region!
Also, when I'm scaling, firebugLite gets scaled off the bottom of the screen too! So not many options as far as debugging goes!
(As I typed this, I thought 'maybe I need to apply the scale() to html {} instead' ... So I just tried that, to no avail!)
Any tips or help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt Ebel
Im tweaking a website for ease-of-use by iPad users. A lot of clickable fields in the original site are too small for finger-based tapping, so I figured a quick solution would be to use the CSS3 transform:scaleY() property to make the whole site just a bit taller and easier to tap.
The problem is, when I scaleY(1.25) any html, Safari/iPad doesn't seem to acknowledge that the total SIZE of the page has changed, and the bottom 20% (.25 out of 1.25) is inaccessible even when you scroll down!
I'll attach a simple sample HTML file which gives a perfect example of the problem: I created a bunch of lines reading "Test xx" where xx runs from 50 down to 1. As you can see (if you put this html file up and browse to it with an iPad), the bottom 10 lines are cut off at the bottom of the page!
Here's the html:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
-webkit-transform:scaleY(1.25);
-webkit-transform-origin:left top;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Test 50<br>Test 49<br>Test 48<br>Test 47<br>Test 46<br>Test 45<br>Test 44<br>Test 43<br>Test 42<br>Test 41<br>
Test 40<br>Test 39<br>Test 38<br>Test 37<br>Test 36<br>Test 35<br>Test 34<br>Test 33<br>Test 32<br>Test 31<br>
Test 30<br>Test 29<br>Test 28<br>Test 27<br>Test 26<br>Test 25<br>Test 24<br>Test 23<br>Test 22<br>Test 21<br>
Test 20<br>Test 19<br>Test 18<br>Test 17<br>Test 16<br>Test 15<br>Test 14<br>Test 13<br>Test 12<br>Test 11<br>
Test 10<br>Test 9<br>Test 8<br>Test 7<br>Test 6<br>Test 5<br>Test 4<br>Test 3<br>Test 2<br>Test 1<br>
</body></html>Also, when I'm scaling, firebugLite gets scaled off the bottom of the screen too! So not many options as far as debugging goes!
(As I typed this, I thought 'maybe I need to apply the scale() to html {} instead' ... So I just tried that, to no avail!)
Any tips or help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Matt Ebel
