It is very frustrating to see that Elgg continue to responds differently including the latest release 2.3.8. If I use iphone and safari, views and buttons are different, and when using android phones, and I have tried out few like Samsung, Sonny, Huawei and Symphony, the views are not the same. Is this a browser asset issue? Why should a site behave differently from different devices. Also Elgg Bundled theme CCS automatically fails to adjust the site name within the GUI if the mobile screen is smaller than Samsung J Core. I want to be very particular like with Symphony G20 which has a small screen the few letters of the site tittle is displayed outside the Core Theme Blue header.
Why is that? Its definitely an issue with the core version, cuz I am using Facebook Logged out Page plugin by Tom and no matter which phone small or big, tab or desktop I use, the views are same. The site looks perfectly same.
Any thoughts into why this happens?
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You must log in to post replies.I would like to add that the elgg.org site also have exactly same views no matter what device and browser I use but the same cannot be said about the elgg core release.
When you say elgg.org doesn't have the problem but elgg core has it, are you testing with 3rd party plugins (themes)? If you have any additional plugins in use, especially a theme that tries to detect mobile devices usage and serves pages accordingly in a mobile friendly way (as defined by this plugin), this could be the reason for the differences on different devices. With Elgg core 2.x the pages are served in a mobile friendly way, too, that is depending mainly (only?) on the screen resolution as far as I know and possibly on what the browser you access the site with requests. If the browser (on a mobile device) is configured to request the desktop version of the site, you will get the desktop version. Otherwise, you might get a slightly different look depending on the device screen resolution (e.g. side-bar at the bottom, site-menu collapsed etc.).