Responsive Design in IE10 on Windows Phone 8

Matt has contributed to our newsletter in the past and this find of his is an absolute doosie. We love to see people solving these problems and sharing the issue with their fellow web designers.

This all worked wonderfully until Microsoft released Windows Phone 8, which for some reason behaves differently to every other mobile OS by interpreting device-width as the actual resolution size (either portrait or landscape depending on how it’s oriented), instead of what the manufacturer (or browser vendor) has decided is the optimal viewport width (such as the “standard” 320px in portrait).

An excerpt from Responsive Design in IE10 on Windows Phone 8

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