The prefered way to handle mobile apps?

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Subject	The prefered way to handle mobile apps?
Date	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:51:00 +0200
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Hi,

I would like to display my front page diferently for mobile users, (as 
well as a few other pages).

I see on the web that there are various scripts to detect mobile apps, 
(from the user agent).

But from experience those quickly get out of date or are simply buggy 
and return some false positive.

So my questions are simple, (I think).

Is there a sure fire way to dynamically detect mobile apps?
Is using php the right tool? or is there a more standard, 
(html/javascript), way of handling those.

I use appache, php 5.3.

Thanks in advance

Simon

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The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2011-07-28 09:51 +0200
  Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-28 07:39 -0500
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> - 2011-07-28 15:23 +0200
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-28 10:21 -0500
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-07-28 21:31 +0000
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-28 19:53 -0400
    Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Simon <bad@example.com> - 2011-07-29 08:33 +0200
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-07-29 08:03 -0400
      Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2011-07-29 08:46 -0500
  Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2011-07-28 18:37 -0400

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