Is there a way to properly check how your website looks on different devices?
I've seen that some components in my website look differently when using a Samsung A11 VS Xiami Mi Note Pro 10 for example. But I had to physically check this to know it, since on Firefox/Chrome responsive view it looks fine, so I was wondering if there's a (ideally free) way to properly check how your website looks on different devices. Like, truly simulation software?
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There is no free vm solution unfortunately... Cost money to emulate/vm so. Browser stack is the one though
Also know that if you are using vw/vh it can display differently than responsive devtools because of mobile bars and how it handles the ICB
Hard to say without seeing the site but yea. Just something to keep in mind/avoid.
Yup, in my experience vw/vw is too unpredictable so I don't use it
In your experience, what things or CSS properties did you notice that behave differently in different devices? For example on google chrome+firefox the text-clamp I had worked great, but didn't worked at all on a iOS device using Chrome
so right now iOS is all webkit skinned
by 2023 because of EU laws they have to free the browsers to be real thing. So you battle is with Safari period
https://joyofcode.xyz/test-your-site-in-every-browser is a great way to test webkit for free
still not going to catch all teh iOS stuff that might differ though. Honestly most things work the same now days. But when its wrong its normally because of a shorthand or property not supported well yet. https://caniuse.com is a great source to check properties you are unsure of.
Somethings still need a prefix -webkit- too not many but some
for that I normally use autoprefixer plugin with postCSS/scss
aka welcome to web development, cross browser support has been a thorn (and was way way worse) since the start of it.
Nice, that Playwright way of testing webkit emulates both desktop and mobile?
Seems like the framework I'm using (NextJS) uses PostCSS right off the bat, so that's nice
no its just webkit desktop, you can't emulate mobile bars without the device (like BrowserStack does it)
Also it will not be as performant, like for me some animations will appear to lag or slow down Playwright. Far as CSS is concerned its helped me a lot testing with it though.
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yea but this just simulates bars on a mock design?
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I use https://polypane.app/ for responsive design these days its nice. Nothing beats a good ol devtools squish test too.
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But does it simulate the movement of the bars? that is were
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cause the ICB changes and its different for mobile
You must not be using vh haha good on you
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cause you would know what I speak of probably if you did 🤣 specially on iPhone keyboard shifts the viewport too
na mate
the safari bars
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address/bottom user bars
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nice I might have to check that out then. Cause if it does it well and really uses viewport/icb then could be handy to test
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i mean devtools does all that
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but yea shows the bars neat
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yea again the big gotcha only would happen if you were using viewport units for the most part
otherwise most things look the same even from devtools/polypane/others.
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Yea def going to look into this more, thanx for the share you should put it in #resources too if you don't mind