Show HN: Test your website's responsiveness

http://mobilewebsim.jonahkatz.me/

by jak1192 • 13 years ago

27 42 13 years ago

mobilewebsim.jonahkatz.me

tehwebguy• 13 years ago

Looks pretty cool! Side note, I just learned about X-Frame-Options as a result of entering http://google.com in the form box using Safari

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTTP/X-Frame-Option...

jak119214• 13 years ago

Interesting. It seems Chrome doesn't support X-Frame-Options

anondesign2• 13 years ago

Not true. Chrome definitely supports x-frame-options (I believe the code for that is part of webkit and is shared with safari).

marban3• 13 years ago

http://screenqueri.es is the much better choice (if you really want to skip the test in an actual emulator)

jak119214• 13 years ago

That's cool!

fady2• 13 years ago

yeah, that worked well for me. pretty quick too.

websitescenes3• 13 years ago

I skim hacker news on my iPhone and I couldn't see anything in the emulation. I'll have try later on my desktop. Thanks for sharing.

jak119214• 13 years ago

The point of the site is to simulate how websites would look on an iPhone. So being you're on an iPhone, use of the site would be counterintuitive :)

websitescenes3• 13 years ago

A browser is a browser.

MostAwesomeDude• 13 years ago

Looks like there aren't any Android options. That's a shame.

jak119214• 13 years ago

Most Android aspect ratios are covered by the Apple devices I implemented. The Galaxy s4 for instance has a 16:9 aspect ratio, the same as the iPhone-5. However, more devices are to come! Feel free to contribute on Github (https://github.com/jak1192/MobileWebSimulator) :)

marban3• 13 years ago

again: http://screenqueri.es

jak119214• 13 years ago

Maybe I should put a chart of common device aspect ratios..

marban3• 13 years ago

no need — there's an option for ARs at http://screensiz.es

aw3c2• 13 years ago

Most Android browsers actually reflow text to fit the screen, just like mobile browsers should. I don't think this website could simulate that.

wholalotta• 13 years ago

it doesnt work. I checked my website from my iphone4s and from your tool. They are not the same.

jak119214• 13 years ago

Hmm. What's your website?

nopal• 13 years ago

http://www.louiewatch.com looks different on my iPhone 5 and your site (accessing site using Safari 6.0.5 on OS X 10.8.4).

scrrr• 13 years ago

Same here. CSS Media Queries are not respected. Looks alright on phone, but this test-website is showing the default desktop-version.

stack0v3erfl0w2• 13 years ago

There is a similar tool built into Firefox (Tools -> Web Developer -> Responsive Design View)

jak119214• 13 years ago

Didn't know that. That's pretty cool. However, its only for Firefox 15 which isn't available for mac yet..

stack0v3erfl0w2• 13 years ago

It is available for Mac! The latest available version is Firefox 21.0 (stable channel).

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

sahaskatta2• 13 years ago

Google Chrome has it built into the inspector as well, however it is not nearly as fancy as the one found in Firefox.

denzil_correa• 13 years ago

This a very good hack. Kudos for it!

amwelles• 13 years ago

Neat tool, but... Should we be targeting specific devices? Shouldn't things look awesome at any screen size? Like somebody already mentioned [1], this doesn't include Android options, Windows phone, or anything else.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928448

jak119214• 13 years ago

Good point. But if one wanted his site to look awesome on any screen size, he could use this tool to confirm that it does.

nudetayne• 13 years ago

Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to render pages the same as Apple devices.

ancarda• 13 years ago

If you use Safari (on OS X), you'll get a much closer rendering to the actual device.

apolymath• 13 years ago

i have to say that this preview thing is bullshit. For example, your web-based iPad viewing size is only 582px wide, when in all reality, the iPad is 1536px wide. Sorry, but this little test is an epic fail.

jak119214• 13 years ago

The aspect ratio is consistent - which, in my opinion, is what's important.

sahaskatta2• 13 years ago

The aspect ratio of the browser's viewport and of the device's display IS NOT the same. (That applies to portrait and landscape too.) The interface elements at the top and bottom skew that quite a bit.

paul9290• 13 years ago

Is there a difference in using this tool vs. seeing how it looks as I scale my browser down to iPad, Android and iPhone size?

jak119214• 13 years ago

Its easier to match the aspect ratio using this tool vs scaling down a browser (how do you know the dimensions of your browser?)

fady2• 13 years ago

do you know why a html file in my dropbox public folder would not display on your site? dropbox public links work well in browsers. i use it a lot for dev stuff

mmahemoff• 13 years ago

You can also go into Chrome devtools, Settings, Overrides. Then you can set the User Agent, which will also update the screen resolution. You can emulate touch events there as well.

jusob• 13 years ago

You can also check http://mobilito.net/

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