OLX - Not actually mobile optimized

Alice Post

So, you compose your email and layout your images in different columns thinking, "This is great, everything rearranges for a moblile layout just like it should!" Then, after sending a test email and looking at your images on a mobile device, you notice that all images have been resized to the small column size (e.g.180px wide), but the mobile display is stretching your now smaller image to span all the way across the email (e.g. 600px across). Every image is blurry and pixelated.


OLX is not actually mobile optimized.


What is the point of having a dynamic layout if it doesn't actually work across devices?

Susan Cronmiller

Alice Post:

So, you compose your email and layout your images in different columns thinking, "This is great, everything rearranges for a moblile layout just like it should!" Then, after sending a test email and looking at your images on a mobile device, you notice that all images have been resized to the small column size (e.g.180px wide), but the mobile display is stretching your now smaller image to span all the way across the email (e.g. 600px across). Every image is blurry and pixelated.


OLX is not actually mobile optimized.


What is the point of having a dynamic layout if it doesn't actually work across devices?

OUCH!

Mark Ellsworth

Alice Post:

So, you compose your email and layout your images in different columns thinking, "This is great, everything rearranges for a moblile layout just like it should!" Then, after sending a test email and looking at your images on a mobile device, you notice that all images have been resized to the small column size (e.g.180px wide), but the mobile display is stretching your now smaller image to span all the way across the email (e.g. 600px across). Every image is blurry and pixelated.


OLX is not actually mobile optimized.


What is the point of having a dynamic layout if it doesn't actually work across devices?

We noticed this with our last email that went out. We put three icons that were png files in three columns across the top below the header. No big deal, right? On some mobile phones the icons came out HUGE and they stacked, each icon almost filling the screen. On other phones, the icons/columns did not stack but the text shrunk to a size that was unreadable, though you could enlarge it with the two-finger trick.  Stacking columns is a typical responsive behavior, but we did not like the results we had here. Not having problems with blurry images.