Developing sites for tablet users

With the explosion of activity around the Kindle Fire and iPad, it seems that tablets are sure to succeed and to stay. Here are some tips for tablets that I gleened from a SitePoint article, which urged us to change our development practices to keep up:

Big issues:

• design for mobile first (which is recommended for universal design)
• test at 1024 x 600 and 600 x 1024 (landscape and portrait)
• test in webkit browsers: Chrome and Safari

Techie issues:

• have JavaScript event handlers support touch devices
• try responsive layouts and media queries

Comments

[BusyTraveler]

Yet another permutation for design!