Re: Mobile identification code

It's a completely separate site. As someone else mentioned, mobile users' needs and capabilities are very
different from users of the regular website. Our mobile site (which I built using the iUI framework) has a
lot of "look up" apps or utilities, such as staff directories, announcements, news items, events, travel
and weather info, etc. Most of the content is dynamically generated either from a database or from RSS
feeds that are transformed into HTML

http://www.law.ttu.edu/
http://www.law.ttu.edu/m/

Our regular website uses some code on the home page to detect mobile users and redirect them to the mobile
site. However, the mobile site allows the mobile user to go back to the regular website, including the home
page, without being caught in a redirect loop. The redirection to the mobile site occurs only if the mobile
user goes to the home page from outside the website (i.e., the referrer variable is from an external site,
or is undefined).

Randy

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:web4lib-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Christine Peterson
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mobile identification code

This discussion brings up a question I've had for a while. For those of
you who are running a mobile version of your website, are you running
two different sites? Or are you using one base set of data and
converting it, depending on what device hits your site? 

Christine Peterson
peterson@...

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