Ah, but this still doesn't answer my question on your part, Mark!
How do you detect browser width, especially on the server-side?
If it's with Javascript... the method Ken describes, it's not clear to
me how javascript logic could get in there exactly.
Thus my question.
On 1/2/2013 3:51 PM, Mark Pernotto wrote:
I'd be curious to hear the response to Jonathan's question. For the
longest time, I used to determine mobile displays by browser, but it
just got too cluttered. Now I detect browser width to determine
mobile versions. This little trick doesn't play nice with all
frameworks, however, so it's not bullet-proof, but so far, it has
worked well. And on a high level, easy to troubleshoot.
It wasn't immediately apparent to me if this was a part of a CMS or
not - it's awfully clean, and the usual Joomla/Drupal/Wordpress
identities weren't visible in the source. Really nice work!
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
What method do you use to detect mobile-or-not?
On 1/2/2013 3:33 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:
Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of databases where
appropriate.
The way I'm doing it is:
1. All database links are served up from a database table, so the link on
our website is http://$OUR_LIBRARY/redirect?$db_id
2. The db-of-dbs knows if there is a mobile specific url (because we put
it there...)
3. Detect mobile-or-not as a binary value
4. Serve up the right one as an HTTP header redirect
One big exception: EBSCO (which provides a really large number of our
databases) handles their mobile access by using the same URL with a
different profile name in the url. The redirect script has a special case
that says if ($mobile = true and $ebsco = true) { do string replace on the
url to change from the desktop url to the mobile url } -- so I don't have to
list both versions of the URL in the database.
It seems to work out pretty well.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Sarah Dooley
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:25 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live
Very cool--congratulations!
In addition to Dave's questions, I'd be curious to know (can't see it
since I don't have a login) how you handled directing people to databases
that have mobile versions. This is something I've been wondering about for
our site down the road and library sites in general--from a responsive site,
how to effectively link people out to vendor-provided resources that are
either mobile or non-mobile.
-Sarah Dooley
