CSS3/FixedPosition
< CSS3
Mobile and Tablets
- Mobile effectively has two viewports: what content layout sees and what the user sees.
- What behavior do we want to support for position: fixed on mobile devices and tablet devices? Goals:
- Backward compatible with desktop (i.e., leaves most pages usable that weren't designed with zooming in mind)
- ...
- http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/12/the_fifth_posit.html
Patterns like fixed position
- An element that remains in place until it is about to be displaced off the page, and then is fixed position.
- Example: "show page contents" on http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/12/the_fifth_posit.html
- Example: Fennec's URL bar when the page is loading