Having issues with a Retina iPhone interacting with a website built using responsive Twitter Bootstrap

I'm currently utilizing Twitter Bootstrap alongside responsive CSS for a web page that is optimized to run in a UIWebView.

My goal is to ensure the consistency of the page's appearance across all iPhones, with an exception for images. These images are required to be displayed at double resolution on retina iPhones while occupying the same screen space.

To achieve this, I have successfully integrated the following code snippet into my style.css file:

.normalres { display: block; }
.retinares   { display: none; }

@media all and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
   .normalres { display: none; }
   .retinares   { display: block; }
}

The implementation of these classes occurs within this structure:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8>
    <title></title>
    <meta name="description" content"">
    <meta name="author" content="">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="css/bootstrap-responsive-mod.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row">
        <div class="span12">
          <h5>Why choose this mobile app?</h5> 
          <img class="pull-right normalres" src="img/iphone.png">          
          <img class="pull-right retinares" src="img/iphone_retina.png">
          <p>Blah Foo Bar</p>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div> <!-- /container -->
  </body>
</html>

In this context, the two images have dimensions of 150px and 300px respectively.

However, I am encountering an issue specifically with the retina iPhone. While the correct image loads, it does not align to the right as expected (with text wrapping around). This behavior mirrors that of the non-retina iPhone, where everything displays correctly. The problem likely stems from Bootstrap treating the retina iPhone as having a low resolution instead of recognizing the higher pixel density and adjusting layout accordingly.

To address this, I need to specify that Bootstrap should treat retina iPhones like devices with a width of 640px, rather than assuming they are only 320px wide. I must identify which media queries in responsive.css require modification and make the appropriate adjustments.

Answer №1

Having faced a similar challenge, I encountered an issue where I desired the iPhone browser to display a portrait viewport at a higher resolution than the standard 320px. The question at hand seems to revolve around this:

My dilemma lies in configuring Bootstrap responsive to treat retina iPhones as 640px wide devices instead of 320px wide ones. However, I am uncertain about which media queries in responsive.css need modification and how to go about making those changes.

To resolve this, I opted to adjust the viewport meta tag:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.8, maximum-scale=1">

This adjustment allowed me to render content at approximately 400px width. For achieving a 640px width, you can set the initial-scale value to 0.5. Keep in mind that this alteration will impact all mobile-like devices, not just retina iPhones, so thorough testing across various devices is essential.

In order to determine the iPhone window's width through javascript, I utilized the following code:

$("#screenWidth").text($(window).width());
$(window).resize(function() {
    $("#screenWidth").text($(window).width());
});

I also integrated some HTML into the page:

<div>screen width: <span id="screenWidth"></span>px</div>

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