980px

[russellbeattie]

In rwd-fundamentals the paragraph reads:

"In order to attempt to provide the best experience, mobile browsers will render the page at a desktop screen width (usually about 960px), "...

Actually, it's exactly 980px on just about every smartphone with a WebKit based browser (aka most of them), and 1024px on IE mobile and Blackberry. See http://www.quirksmode.org/mobile/metaviewport/

iPhone	iPad	Android Samsung	Android HTC	Chrome	Opera Presto	Kindle Fire	BlackBerry	IE
980	980	980	980	980	980	980	1024	1024

It's a small, but important detail.

[pp-koch]

I always say 800-1024px. Old Androids may use anything from 800 to 1000. 1024 seems to be the maximum right now. And we shouldn't encourage people to focus on just one resolution, so a range would be best. I think.

[russellbeattie]

I'm in violent agreement about encouraging developers to do the right thing, but I think being purposefully misleading isn't a great idea either. I think a range would be fine, but if you're going to keep "about" I would encourage you to use 980px as that's definitely the most common resolution devs will encounter today.

[pp-koch]

980 is the most common one; that's true.

Ah well, it doesn't really matter a lot. It's just that I've spent the last weeks writing book chapters about all these topics, so I have now My Way of Explaining It. And everybody else's is Wrong.

I'll get over it.