Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-14 Thread tee
On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:17 PM, tee wrote: I have found it reliable. http://detectmobilebrowser.com/ A heads-up, it doesn't recognize the Palm Pre. Maybe it's a bug from the device's OS rather than detection code. To fix it you can add a 'pre'. tee

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-11 Thread tee
On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:10 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

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-11 Thread Micky Hulse
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:17 PM, tee weblis...@gmail.com wrote: http://detectmobilebrowser.com/ Nice! Thanks for link Tee. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe:

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread Patrick H. Lauke
On 07/01/2011 04:10, 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

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread designer
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

RE: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread Jody L. Meyer
until a better solution comes along. Have a super day! Jody Meyer From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 11:10 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread David Laakso
On 07/01/2011 04:10, 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? On mobile strategy: Bruce Lawson

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread tee
On mobile strategy: Bruce Lawson http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-mobile-web-optimization-guide/ [Personally, I think media queries is the way to go.] Media Queries for Mobile Web is nothing but kool-aid nevertheless :-) I admit though, I idrink/i it very often.

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-07 Thread Sam Sherlock
Also you can get opera mobile emu for pc or mac :) http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/2010/04/22/get-the-opera-mobile-emulator-on-your-mac-or-pc and the info for the Samsung Emu is here (think this is the appropriate link for what Tee mentioned)

[WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Kear
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]

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Grant Bailey
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

Re: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread David Hucklesby
On 1/6/11 8:10 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

RE: [WSG] Detecting Mobile user agent - what methods work best?

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Kear
David, this is a variation on the logic that freed us all from the worst of the IE quirks way back then. IF you remember back then, most of us would build our sites for IE5, the drive ourselves crazy trying to put in hacks for all the other browsers. (well **I** did anyway!) That was until