A web browser developed by Amazon for use on their Kindle Fire tablet devices.
Questions tagged [amazon-silk]
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Kindle Fire SilkBrowser Reading View CSS
Does anyone know how to correctly impletment CSS classes for the Kindle Fire Silk Browser Reading View?
The Kindle Fire 6.3 Update added a "Reading View":
With Reading View on Silk, the content that you're interested in is elevated above the…
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Amazon Silk browser: any special considerations for front-end developers
Do front-end developers need any special considerations for the Amazon Silk Browser because of it's split architecture and it's re-sizing of images? Or can it be considered as just another webkit browser from a developer's perspective?
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Viewport or innerHeight of Amazons Kindle Fire?
I build a webpage for the iPad and now I need to make some adjustments to get it run on the Kindle Fire. The main problem is, I cant't find any informations about the real usable space in the silk browser. On many sites on the net they say it's…
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Is the viewport meta tag supported by the Amazon Silk browser on Kindle Fire?
I'm trying to use the viewport meta tag to scale HTML content when viewed on the Kindle Fire.
I have set up the following test page:
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HTML5 site enter full screen mode in silk browser or hide the address bar in silk browser after loading the url?
when the page is loaded, it should enter in full screen mode. How do
I force the browser to enter in full screen mode? or hide the
address bar?
How do I detect silk browser user agent in jquery?
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How do I enable remote debugging on the Kindle Silk browser?
I'm trying to use remote debugging through Chrome DevTools for Kindle's Silk Browser. I followed the instructions on their documentation, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/silk/latest/developerguide/remote-debugging.html , but typing "about:developer"…
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Amazon Silk Browser - Considerations for Mobile Web Developers
I have a client who wants me to optimize their mobile website for the Kindle Fire. I've done development on iPhone, iPad, and Android, but not for Android tablets and not specifically for the Kindle Fire either.
I wanted to know, as a mobile web…
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What font file formats are supported on the Amazon Silk Browser?
Trying to get a font style to work on the Amazon Silk Browser. Went through their documentation but they don't mention it anywhere.
Currently using tiff and woff because it's supported by all the major browsers listed on the w3 Web Font support…
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Silk browser of Kindle has a download bug?
Suppose that I want to write a web page with laravel5 (a PHP framework) to download a mobi/awz3 file from the Kindle's web browser directly. The code looks like (please refer to the link given above for the detail):
return…
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Why is my querystring being modified by Chrome Mobile on iPhone and Kindle Fire's Silk browser?
I have a portal application with the following url https://pv.xxxxx.org/Y/Students.aspx, at least that is how it appears in any of my web browsers on my PC. On my Kindle Fire HD (Silk) or iPhone (Chrome) it is showing up like…
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Maximum six connections causing issues in browser on Kindle (Silk)
Don't know if anyone can help here, but I will ask anyway.
We have a website built using ASP.NET (VB). It works fine on the desktop, iPad or mobile phone browsers, but on a Kindle tablet (in Silk browser) frequently the maximum six tcp connections…
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Silk browser background cover center doesn't work if there is a div absolute
body.page-id-444 {
height: 100%;
margin:0px;
background: url(picture) ;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: center;
-webkit-background-size: cover;
-moz-background-size:…
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Kindle Silk browser having issues with keypress event?
I'm trying to restrict a text box to numeric entry only in a project using knockout.js and MVC.
I'm doing a data-bind on the keypress event to call a function from the VM that looks like this:
this.NumbersOnly = function (data,evt) {
var…
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Kindle Silk Browser: Set focus on a textbox
This is my first post, so I hope it finds it's way to the correct forum.
I created a web page with a SQL backend to capture the start time for a production job. There is only one textbox on the page. After the timestamp is saved, the focus is…
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