How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails

How to do responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails | We Are Cube.

wearecube.ch 08 Mar '13, 10am

How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails

Some mobile browsers (Opera on Android, Firefox on Android) do not update the actual viewport when the meta-tag gets changed after the page is loaded. If you zoom, Safari on iOS ignores the new value for initial-scale and keeps the current zoom level. So if you switch back to the responsive version, it does not use the full width of the screen anymore. You have to reload the page, to display it correclty. This of course diminishes the advantage of changing the meta -Tag on the client-side. Implementation with Ruby on Rails Now if we’ll look at a server-side implmentation for an opt-out possibility with Rails: You need a responsive_controller.rb class ResponsiveController < ApplicationController def optOut cookies[:responsive] = { :value => "no", :expires => 30.days.from_now } redirect_to(:back) end def optIn cookies.delete(:responsive) redirect_to(:back) end end Then add s...

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@markwaber » 11 Mar '13, 2pm
RT @RolandStuder: Blogpost: Responsive Design Opt-Out with #rails or #js [link]
@RolandStuder » 11 Mar '13, 10am
Blogpost: Responsive Design Opt-Out with #rails or #js [link]
@geronimi » 08 Mar '13, 10am
RT @WeAreCubeDesign: How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails [link]
@RolandStuder » 08 Mar '13, 10am
Blogpost: How to do responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails [link]
@WeAreCubeDesign » 08 Mar '13, 10am
How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails [link]
@puzzleitc » 08 Mar '13, 11am
RT @WeAreCubeDesign: How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails [link]
@pmurkowsky » 08 Mar '13, 11am
RT @WeAreCubeDesign: How to do Responsive opt-out by setting the viewport with JavaScript or Ruby on Rails [link]