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Re: detect a phone

Subject Re: detect a phone
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
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From Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com>
Date 2017-08-27 08:48 +1000
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On 27/08/2017 2:40 AM, Michael Haufe (TNO) wrote:
> Andrew Poulos wrote:
>> I've got a situation where it would be beneficial to know if the js
>> is running on a phone and I thought "instead of parsing
>> navigator.userAgent why not just check for the window screen
>> size?"
> 
> What are you ultimately trying to do? Determine if a screen is small?
> Determine if the user is using a mouse vs. a touch screen? Something
> else?
> 
> In other words, I'm assuming you don't care about if a person is
> using a phone or not, you are concerned about what using a phone
> implies.
> 

Ultimately I need to know if the screen is small.

Andrew Poulos

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detect a phone Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-26 19:23 +1000
  Re: detect a phone "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-26 11:44 +0200
    Re: detect a phone Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-27 00:09 +1000
      Re: detect a phone "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-08-26 20:02 +0200
  Re: detect a phone Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-26 20:42 +0800
  Re: detect a phone "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2017-08-26 09:40 -0700
    Re: detect a phone Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-27 08:48 +1000
      Re: detect a phone "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2017-08-26 16:31 -0700
      Re: detect a phone Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-27 03:35 +0200
  Re: detect a phone JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-08-27 00:03 +0700
    Re: detect a phone Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-27 08:21 +1000
      Re: detect a phone Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-27 04:00 +0200
        Re: detect a phone Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-08-27 18:13 +1000
          Re: detect a phone Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-27 15:15 +0200
    Re: detect a phone Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-08-27 11:30 -0500
  Re: detect a phone Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-08-27 03:33 +0200

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