WaltS wrote: > On 03/02/2013 11:30 AM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> WaltS wrote: >>> Rick Merrill wrote: >>>> Geoff Welsh wrote: >>>>> Rick Merrill wrote: >>>>>> How do I get SM & my webpage to detect whether the user >>>>>> client/browser is a mobile phone and display a different URL? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance... >>>>> >>>>> You are a user, SM contains a browser on a device you >>>>> could/would/are using. >>>>> >>>>> However, using CSS, a web page can display differently to a browser >>>>> on a mobile phone, vs a browser on a regular computer. >>>>> >>>>> That's a question for a CSS group, not SM users/designers. >>>> >>>> Ok, (one has to start somewhere) >>>> >>>> So where is a good CSS group? >>> >>> comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets >> >> That's the group I would suggest for CSS questions as well. However, >> the original question is how to detect the User Agent. Only a scripting >> language, such as PHP, could do that. For example, the value of: >> >> $ua = $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; >> >> ..followed by a switch or a if/elseif/endif type construct to set a >> header redirect. HTML and CSS aren't programmable to be able to >> identify a UA. > > The original question is a bit confusing to me.
I'd agree with that... > I understand the web page part, but why would the OP want SeaMonkey to > detect whether the client/browser is a mobile phone. No real reason I can think of. Occasionally there can be a need for the web-hosting server to know what the UA is, though. I have Chris Pederick's User Agent Switcher extension installed, and do sometimes set it to spoof as a phone .. just to see what happens. Most of the time: nothing. <http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/> -- -bts -This space for rent, but the price is high _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
