https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27690
Terence Eden <bugzilla.wikimedia....@shkspr.mobi> changed:
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--- Comment #4 from Terence Eden <bugzilla.wikimedia....@shkspr.mobi>
2011-03-04 14:14:06 UTC ---
May I *strongly* suggest that you do not use JavaScript to perform the
redirection. Any device detection should be done server-side.
Many mobile phones - especially those in the developing world - don't have
JavaScript, or have non-compliant implementations, or have it switched off for
performance reasons.
Even if a device does use JS, it still has to load the entire page of HTML
which for many people will be a slow and costly experience. If people are
paying per MB on a GPRS connection, they will not get a great experience.
Best practice would be to use a service like DeviceAtlas
(http://deviceatlas.com/) or WURFL (http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/) to parse
User Agent strings on the server, then 302 redirect them.
Alternatively, an .htaccess modification would work as well.
I don't know enough about Wikimedia architecture to know which is the best in
this case. What I do know is relying on client-side redirection is not safe.
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