I've seen this question before, but the answer is evading me. There are four images on the front-page of the site http://miraishii.com. The top image, in the section displays fine, but the three within the second section don't. They are assigned images with id's gal-1, gal-2, gal-3.
The images display fine in desktop browsers, but neither iOS Safari nor iOS chrome will display the background-images. I'm using the Safari inspector to view the site, the images seem to be loading, but not displaying.
It is probably because fixed background images do not yet work in iOS yet. See How to replicate background-attachment fixed on iOS and see does a background-attachment of fixed work in iOS5?
My suggestion would be to use a media query to target mobile and do the background image in the boring way (just for smaller screens). My understanding is if you want fixed background position on mobile right now, you're going to be doing some hairy polyfills. I am sure the situation will improve over time.
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Edit: I found out that the issue is exclusive to iPhones. I tested with an android device and it worked fine when I tried viewing the page on two different iPhones it broke on both.
This issue is mobile related, since when I shrink my browser window to the size of a mobile screen, everything looks fine. However, when I view the site on my actual mobile device, the drop shadow "breaks" at seemingly random places. If I zoom in and out these breaks will change their locations.
The current effect being used is
filter: drop-shadow(20px 10px 4px #707070);
After further research into this, I found that the issue was not specific to my website. If you go onto the Mozilla MDN Docs on a recent iPhone device, you'll notice that it gives you the exact same effect when zoomed in. I'm going to post this as an issue on Github as suggested in the docs. Here is what my mobile phone showed when viewing the Firefox Logo drop shadow effect.
As suggested in a comment, changing to a simple box-shadow fixed the issue, although the edges are more hard-lined and slightly less faded (using the same parameters). It's not enough to break this specific project and I know there are CSS features available that enhance this, so all is good!
I am working on creating a parallax-ish scrolling effect for the mobile version of my site. The effect works fine on a desktop when I shrink the browser, or when I use Chrome's mobile viewer, but it doesn't work on my phone.
Here's the live example. Shrink your browser below 980px wide to see the effect. http://imbibe.staging.wpengine.com/
It appears that on mobile, the background image is shown at full size, and doesn't remain fixed.
It's just a CSS effect, no js or anything. Let me know what more details I can provide and I will! Thanks.
I'm trying to work with the nice parallax effect in this template. It seems to work well with all browsers except mobile Safari (unusually)!
http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB002R8U1
Look at the ABOUT and FOURTH sections on an iPad and the background image goes missing (presumably because it's stuck to the top of the page behind the other elements.
Anyone know a workaround for this?
Many thanks.
parallax on mobile iOS is not that easy: safari blocks all rendering while scrolling (for performance boosting), therefore you can't measure the current scrolled distance and apply it to the background position. the picture would only refresh it's position when you've finished scrolling (and without animation, so you wouldn't see anything of it).
There are workarounds but they're not as easy to implement. one of them is http://markdalgleish.com/projects/stellar.js/ with its iOS techdemo.
Best solution: split your css markup and let parallax only be visible to desktop devices. As parallax needs a lot of power (because it's not hardware accelerated), it's not very suitable for mobile devices anyway.
I've been working on a website for a little while now, doing most of my testing in Chrome, Firefox, and IE. As I'm wrapping things up, I've tried viewing it in Safari (on Mac, iPad, and iPhone). I've noticed that certain elements are misplaced in Safari. I've tried playing with the CSS, but I've had no luck.
The page can be viewed here - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/
See specifically the logo (being pushed down into the banner), the font of the tagline in the banner (wrapping beyond the banner and extending too far to the left), the 'Featured Work' title wrapping, the project names wrapping, and the footer wrapping.
Here is how the page should look - http://staging.princewebdesigns.com/gallais/images/chrome.png
To see how it looks on my iPhone, change the link above to .../iphone.png
Any help is appreciated.
The issue is (I think) that you have your browser's text zoomed in.
I loaded the page in Safari 5.1 on Mac OS 10.7.3, and it loaded fine initially. When I zoomed normally, the layout stayed intact. As soon as I tried zooming just the text, the layout broke per your description.
That being said, you may want to think hard about how to make the layout more 'flexible' in the event a user does have their text size increased. In IE, for example, the default zoom is full page zoom, but a user can still increase their text size apart from zooming. It's worth testing your layout in those situations to make sure it doesn't completely derail. I'm not saying it has to be perfect, but still legible.
One idea is to try out different units. I've found that when declaring horizontal lengths (e.g. margin-left) using relative measurements works, but when declaring vertical lengths, (e.g. margin-top) using pixel measurements works better. For super critical items, like the site logo, positon:absolute may be a good route to try.
I'm banging my head against a wall with a coding problem. I've developed a website with a large background image to allow scrollable content.
The page appears fine on most browsers, but on the ipad/safari, this browser presents the full background image in the viewable area, not just the native resoltion of the background image as per the ther main borwsers.
It's important I keep the image background and allow it to scroll down as some pages on this site will be lengthy. Any ideas would be much apporeicated!
Thanks in advance!
Preview of layout page: http://websiteworkpreview.com/test/index_test.html
The homepage is index.html (for reference) - Homepage uses different bg image. No problems there...!
Error screnshot of background in Safari on iPad: http://websiteworkpreview.com/test/2.JPG
Mobile Safari has had some issues with image filesize, and some known limitations. Take a look at the discussion in the link below. It shows an example that looks very similar to yours, where the image is being cropped vertically, and some specs as to the limitations. Even though it is referencing using an iPhone, it would, of course, affect an iPad as well, as both use Mobile Safari.
http://www.defusion.org.uk/archives/2010/02/19/shrinking-large-background-image-bug-in-iphone-safari/