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Re: The prefered way to handle mobile apps?

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On 2011/07/28 02:39 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:51:00 +0200, Simon wrote:
>> 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 But from experience those quickly get out of date or are simply buggy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?
>
> No. The user-agent value is what you've got to work with. Mostly, Real
> Developers handle this by spending no small amount of time reading
> documentation, experimenting, and testing with new devices and new OS
> releases for those devices. People without a development budget adequate
> for this kind of testing have to get by via reading the same doco, and
> following discussions between those people that do that kind of testing
> comparing notes. And, if one doesn't feel like sitting on one's hands
> during those discussions, fixing the bugs in the detection routines
> using the information others collect is a perfectly valid contribution.
>

Thanks for that.

Truth be told, my 2 main concerns are
1) false positves.
For example, Mobile_Detect 
(http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/), a very brief look at the 
bug list shows a fair amount of false positves.

2) The time spent at every page load to look if this is a mobile or not.

In the end, I might settle for $_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE'] and/or 
$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'] (wap)

Thanks all

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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