25 Aug 18:28
Re: Mobile identification code
There's an open-source mobile browser detection code that we use at USM libraries which comes in a variety of flavors. Oddly enough it is called 'detect mobile browsers' and is available here: http://detectmobilebrowser.com/ BTW, it works great, and is updated with OS and device types all the time by the community of users. On Aug 25, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote: > We have a javascript between <head> and </head> > > <script> > if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || > (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) { > if (document.cookie.indexOf("iphone_redirect=false") == -1) window.location > = "http://m.library.appstate.edu/"; > } > </script> > > This only works for the iPhone/iPod. it would be simple enough to add in for > other devices but you would have to do it for each different browser identified. > > Found this in nytimes.com > > <link rel="alternate" media="handheld" href="http://mobile.nytimes.com"> > > In an email to this list earlier this year showed where one library had to > write something like 8 apps or more for mobile users so they could cover the > major vendors of phones. But this was apps for the phones. > > Also, there are broswers for phones that let the user decide which sites to > view. Such as Skyfire where you can choose to view as desktop or mobile. > There's Dolphin and Opera Mini where you can toggle mobile view. I use these > on Droid. > > > Thomas > > > > On Wednesday 25 August 2010 10:02:08 Dawn Work MaKinne wrote: >> I don't know to which e-list I should be directing this question. I need >> the snippet of code that needs to head our Home Page that knows how to >> identify an incoming user as a mobile user and will direct that user >> automatically to our mobile site. Is this a fairly direct piece of code, >> or is it pretty complex? Please let me know what list I need to join to >> get the answer to this question. Thank you! >> >> Dawn Work-MaKinne >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Web4lib mailing list >> Web4lib@... >> http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/ >> > > -- > ========================================== > Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University > Operations & Systems Analyst P O Box 32026 > University Library Boone, North Carolina 28608 > (828) 262 6587 > > Library Systems Help Desk: https://www.library.appstate.edu/help/ > ========================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Web4lib mailing list > Web4lib@... > http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/ > ----------------------------------------- Steven Turner Library Web Services Manager Information Services Librarian Associate Professor The University of Southern Mississippi Cook Library ----------------------------------------- email: steven.turner@... phone: 601.266.4066 -----------------------------------------
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