Background tiles not working in iPad2 but ok everywhere else

As it turned out I learned something quite useful and should have stopped back to post the answer here.

After quite a lot of searching I found 2 articles:
http://www.teknocat.org/blog/web-dev…-scaling-quirk

which linked to:

http://www.defusion.org.uk/archives/…iphone-safari/

To summarize: there’s a size-limit for background images/graphics that will be properly rendered by iphones/pads. Widths and heights can vary but the width times the height can’t exceed 2,000,001 or the browser will shrink the graphic (which was what I was seeing). My background images were 1800px wide x 1200px tall (which equals 2,160,000) and 1800 x 1800 (which equals 3,240,000!) Had to make them smaller. Got sizes below 2,000,000 and whammo! they were fine!

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