I think you've answered your own question, Mike. It's a mess.
I am currently making (simple) fluid layouts and ensuring that floats 'drop'
(exactly the opposite of what I've been doing in the last several years!).
Also adding the meta tag :
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
seems to help. After that, it's just 'hope for the best'.
This is not 'giving up', it's called 'waiting to see what happens' . . .
:-)
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Kear
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 4:10 AM
Subject: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?
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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