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    1. Re: [FreeHelp] Need feedback about "Tag Readers" and web design/usability potential issues
    2. Barry Carlson
    3. On Friday, July 22, 2011 8:37 AM Judy wrote:- > Like Ralph and others have said, I don't want to bother with QR tags on a > website if it wouldn't help anyone. ------------------ I think the primary goal is to decide what if any of your webpages you desire to render clearly on small screen technology. It is a bit like going back to designing for 320 x 240 or 640 x 480 pixel layouts. Unfortunately, the home computer market is heading in the high resolution direction, with 1600 x 900 pixel screens making their way into the home consumer market. Liquid layouts are good, but you will need image resizing and page width limitations if a resonable layout is to be maintained on small screens. This is an area where Javascript can and should be used to determine the screen width resolution of the device, and provide an appropriate Cascading Style Sheet where the layout can be adjusted, and image sizes changed. Even using this method, you may need multiple stylesheets to cover the phone market, and yet there is a growing Ipad proliferation. In NZ there are schools that are now specifying Ipads as a stationery requirement. http://tinyurl.com/44dex9d My concern is differentiating between true mobiles and the Ipad 11" format, and whether for genealogy purposes the construction of multiple stylesheets is warranted. Many mobiles have inbuilt apps that can handle the majority of webpages - some better than others, and the browser designers are also working on the problem, with browsers to match. So, it could be that the problem will be solved at the user end. For those publishing GedCom files, http://www.mobilegenealogy.com/family-bee/ should be worth a look. Barry

    07/22/2011 07:09:38