I would suggest basing your redirect on screen width rather than user agent strings. Also the dev tools in Chrome has a neat little feature to allow you to specify a different user agent as well as screen size for testing on the desktop.
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 27, 2013, at 4:13 PM, "Dan G. Switzer, II" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > John, > > I've looked into the following recently: > > - http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ - In my testing, the code they give > you works surprisingly well. It does not report tablets as mobile, which is > the behavior I was looking for, but not be want you want. They basically > give you some CFML and then you tweak the conditional statement for your > needs. > - WURFL (Java API) - Pretty easily to get up and running w/CF. The > licensing is a bit weird, but you get very robust information back. Due to > the fact you must load a 16MB XML config file, the initialization time is > really slow, so you definitely want to cache your implementation so the > init only happens once. > - 51Degrees (Java API) - They offer a free version, but it lumps tablets > in as a mobile device. You can upgrade to a paid version to differentiate > tablets and phones. I like the API better than WURFL and initialization is > much faster, but analyzing data is much slower. WURFL is darn quick. > > I've still be trying to find a good database of User Agents that breaks the > strings down into "desktop", "tablet" and "phone" so that I could run unit > tests of the various implementations, but the DetectMobileBrowsers.com code > has been as accurate as WURFL in my limited tests of a few dozen user > agents. > > -Dan > > > > >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:26 PM, John M Bliss <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Agreed. Unfortunately, client has only approved hours to develop mobile >> version...not hours to redevelop / redesign existing site so that it's >> responsive. >> >> Basically, when mobile is detected, I'll be rendering a mobile-optimized >> "skin" around existing CFML CMS-driven "center trough" content. >> >> >>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Che Vilnonis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> You could also look to "Responsive Web Design" in lieu of creating a >>> separate site. >>> >>> ~Ché >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Ron Gowen [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 2:21 PM >>> To: cf-talk >>> Subject: Re: Mobile >>> >>> >>> i use this: (not sure im cool though) >>> >>> https://github.com/sebarmeli/JS-Redirection-Mobile-Site >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:16 AM, John M Bliss <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi! I'm tasked with developing mobile browser-optimized version of >>>> existing site. What're the cool kids currently using for mobile >>> browser-detection? >>>> This: >>>> >>>> http://www.cflib.org/udf/isMobileBrowser >>>> >>>> ...or something else? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> John Bliss - http://about.me/jbliss > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:356862 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
