Hi Mark, Not using a CMS at this point, but I did use Twitter Bootstrap<http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>. So there's no browser detection, just media queries on width.
Ron On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mark Pernotto <mark.perno...@gmail.com>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 > >> > >> > > >