Hello,

I am interested to know what people are doing in practice to detect browser 
capabilities and serve up different page-level components, specifically for 
mobile devices.

I have a particular project for which the mobile front end is a small subset of 
the views available on the desktop.  It's not suitable for the kind of 
"responsive design" where we would let the UI degrade gracefully on the client 
side.  Take it as read that we can't do that at the moment, and I need to serve 
specific page-level components for "mobile devices" (which I'll deliberately 
leave poorly defined).  Ideally I'd like to do this from first page load—the 
user should get a mobile-specific login page—so any solution that included 
client-side capability detection would need to take that into account.

I'm happy to use the kind of UA string sniffing technique employed by 
ERXBasicBrowser (and have employed exactly this in other projects), thought 
that class doesn't seem to have seen much love lately, and I suspect it's a bit 
out of date.  I'm keen to know if the state of the art has moved on.

Can anyone take 5 minutes to describe, even just broadly, any techniques 
they're using to solve this kind of problem in the real world?


-- 
Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/


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