Android update for CSS media queries

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If you are using CSS media queries to use custom CSS for mobile devices then you might want to know that newer Android versions (starting from 2.3 or 2.2) won't use max-device-width. Instead they use -webkit-device-pixel-ratio, like so:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio:0.75)" href="style_mobile.css" />

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