[Wmlbrowser] Resizing Firefox Window to emulate phone screen sizes

Stanley Mok stanleychmok at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 22 15:48:19 EST 2006


See the thread:
<http://mozdev.org/pipermail/wmlbrowser/2006-February/000137.html>

HTH

Stanley

--- Grant Wilson <grant_on_holiday at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Re: WML browser and screen size
> 
> Question: Can the size of a displayed WML page be
> reduced to emulate a phone screen?
> 
> Michael previously said:
> >Alternativley, nothing stops you dragging in the
> corner of your firefox 
> >so that it forms a 128x128 screen -- there are even
> seperate >extensions.... Web Developer...
> >http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
> 
> I have attempted to use this trick, but
> Firefox/wmlbrowser combo doesn't want to play nice....
> it seems to think that the content area can't be
> smaller than around 256 pixels wide* without drawing a
> scrollbar across the bottom.
> 
> Also the actual presentation of the wml deck (grey
> rectangle), starts around 16 pixels from the left hand
> side (and also down from the top).
> Why is this? Can these offsets be editted? 
> 
> I'm trying to emulate small screen sizes of 176x208 or
> thereabouts, and find this scrolling behavior
> annoying!
> 
> [* roughly measured with Firefox 1.5/wmlbrowser 0.7.2,
> Mac OS X 10.3.9.]
> 
> Any hints on how to get a really small screen?
> 
> Regards,
> - Grant.
> 
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