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Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? [message #174975 is a reply to message #174973]

Thu, 28 July 2011 13:23

Michael Fesser
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> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:51:00 +0200, Simon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to display my front page diferently for mobile users, (as
>> well as a few other pages).
>>
>> I see on the web that there are various scripts to detect mobile apps,
>> (from the user agent).
>>
>> But from experience those quickly get out of date or are simply buggy
>> and return some false positive.
>>
>> So my questions are simple, (I think).
>>
>> Is there a sure fire way to dynamically detect mobile apps?
>
> No. The user-agent value is what you've got to work with. Mostly, Real
> Developers handle this by spending no small amount of time reading
> documentation, experimenting, and testing with new devices and new OS
> releases for those devices.

A reason why browser sniffing is ugly, inefficient and unreliable.

Unfortunately in many cases it's most likely still the only way, because
many browser still don't support the better alternatives, like handheld
CSS and the new media queries in CSS 3.

Micha

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		The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Simon on Thu, 28 July 2011 07:51
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 28 July 2011 12:39
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Michael Fesser on Thu, 28 July 2011 13:23
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 28 July 2011 15:21
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: legalize+jeeves on Thu, 28 July 2011 21:31
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 28 July 2011 23:53
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Simon on Fri, 29 July 2011 06:33
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 29 July 2011 12:03
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Peter H. Coffin on Fri, 29 July 2011 13:46
		Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? By: Norman Peelman on Thu, 28 July 2011 22:37

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