Why not just follow Apple's iOS control sizing guidelines
Because that is completely missing the point and leaving out every device not made by Apple (which is most devices in the market).
Your aim should be to have an overall strategy for how to handle the incredible amount of devices and variations out there. And to be honest, the iPad Mini adds nothing new to this mix.
We already had the form factor, we already had the size, we already has the DPI.
If you are making web-pages, make them work on anything reasonably capable, not just iGadgets. Anything else is a big "fuck you" to Tim Berner Lee.
Do you really want to tell mister world wide web to fuck of? Do you?
Besides, optimizing for iOS-devices seems passé and counter-productive. It's currently the minority-platform and its market-share is diminishing year by year now.
Android on the other hand, with its 75% and increasing market-share, now that sounds like an audience you do want to make sure you reach. If your website works well on a variety of Android-devices, you can be reasonably sure it will work on other platforms as well, iOS included.
That's the point of CSS and media queries - to separate the style from the content. But in case you didn't read the article, you cannot in fact get the ppi value from the current version of Safari that is bundled with the iMac mini.
Because that is completely missing the point and leaving out every device not made by Apple (which is most devices in the market).
Your aim should be to have an overall strategy for how to handle the incredible amount of devices and variations out there. And to be honest, the iPad Mini adds nothing new to this mix.
We already had the form factor, we already had the size, we already has the DPI.
If you are making web-pages, make them work on anything reasonably capable, not just iGadgets. Anything else is a big "fuck you" to Tim Berner Lee.
Do you really want to tell mister world wide web to fuck of? Do you?
Besides, optimizing for iOS-devices seems passé and counter-productive. It's currently the minority-platform and its market-share is diminishing year by year now.
Android on the other hand, with its 75% and increasing market-share, now that sounds like an audience you do want to make sure you reach. If your website works well on a variety of Android-devices, you can be reasonably sure it will work on other platforms as well, iOS included.