Hi Mike,
It's best to detect from the server side in my opinion. If you have
administrator rights to the server you could use something like the
Apache Mobile Filter
(http://www.apachemobilefilter.org/Apache_Mobile_Filter/Welcome.php).
Regards,
Grant Bailey
On 7/01/2011 3:10 PM, Mike Kear wrote:
I have to convert a client site to enable phone users to use the site
and I was wondering what is the best method to detect the mobile user
agent and switch the css sheet?
As far as I have seen, there are a few ways to do this - which is
best? (or maybe the way to put it is 'least bad')
[A] a link at the top of the normal page, linking to a mobile version
of the page. (yuk)
[B] javascript detection (but there are thousands of mobile
devices to detect. YUK )
[C] Use CSS @media handheld (but many mobile phones don't support the
handheld media type )
[D] server side detection using CGI.User_Agent (but there are so
many user agents to detect)
[E] screen resolution detection (but is that reliable?)
Are there any other ways to do this?
How do the rest of you handle serving pages to both computer screens
and mobile device screens??
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
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