You might want to try adding "width=device-width" to the viewport element, like so:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/>

Matt Ryan
Associate Director of Web Communications, Carleton College
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From: "Jeremy Casper" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 12:44:42 PM
Subject: Re: [WEBSTANDARDS] Media queries for mobile stylesheet

Erik,
Try putting in some javascript real quick to have it return what the device width is, it might be coming out higher than you're expecting and causing the mobile sheets not to load. Might also want to look at using screen width instead of device width.

-Jeremy J. Casper
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Erik Schumann wrote:

Hi everyone,

Our office is developing a mobile version of our site. I'm using the following media queries to load our mobile styelsheet for phones/smartphones.

<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/><!-- prevents the cell phone browser from zooming out on the page. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" type="text/css" href="mobile2.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" type="text/css" href="mobile2.css" /><!-- for iphone -->


I'm using emulators to test on the various browsers (iphone, Android, Opera, Firefox, etc.). I've run into an issue where the mobile stylesheet doesn't load on Firefox mobile or iphone. All the others work fine. Anyone else have this problem or know of a solution?

Thanks much,
Erik

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Erik Schumann
Graphic Designer
University Policy Program
University of Minnesota