https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27690
--- Comment #5 from Reedy <[email protected]> 2011-03-04 14:15:08 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > 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. See bug 24859 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
