I am just by checking the useragent in the request.
On 18 March 2011 10:01, railsnerd rails.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there
Is anyone using Heroku to serve a mobile and desktop version of their
site?
How to handle device detection? Particularly when using the some URLs
to deliver
You are doing this in the backend? Some people are checking the user
agent in the front end... but that seems too late (if u can help it)
What are your differences in what is delivered?
Do you have different markup and content for mobile? If so I guess
caching your URIs might be difficult if
I'm using mobile-fu on a few Rails apps on Heroku:
https://github.com/brendanlim/mobile-fu
It does device detection by checking the user agent against a giant regex.
It also provides a mobile mime type so you can put your mobile-specific views
in their own foo.mobile.erb views if you want.
On
I am using two different strategies for this scenarios. Take a look at
this screencast [1] and to the Responsive Design article at A List
Apart.
The first one is strategy is to serve different pages to the user. In
this case I do it in the backend checking the user agent and render
two different
Not good if you're caching then?
On 18 March 2011 12:16, Dan Croak dcr...@thoughtbot.com wrote:
I'm using mobile-fu on a few Rails apps on Heroku:
https://github.com/brendanlim/mobile-fu
It does device detection by checking the user agent against a giant regex.
It also provides a mobile
Yes, I was about to say all these techniques (other than the css
media queries) require a hit to the backend.
Ideally there would be detection on the edge/cloud, so varnish cache
can kick in where possible without hitting a rails stack or sinatra.
Still, good ideas in this thread.
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Indeed. I'm not totally convinced by client-side device detection from a
responsiblity perspective. I think maintaining a server-side distinction,
personally preferably via a subdomain, ticks most boxes given caching
efforts. Interested in more views though..
On 18 March 2011 22:41, railsnerd
Some Content Delivery Networks offer device detection and ESI based on
this.
This is the ideal solution, but too far outside of the Heroku sandbox
- maybe?
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