I'd be curious to hear the response to Jonathan's question. For the longest time, I used to determine mobile displays by browser, but it just got too cluttered. Now I detect browser width to determine mobile versions. This little trick doesn't play nice with all frameworks, however, so it's not bullet-proof, but so far, it has worked well. And on a high level, easy to troubleshoot. It wasn't immediately apparent to me if this was a part of a CMS or not - it's awfully clean, and the usual Joomla/Drupal/Wordpress identities weren't visible in the source. Really nice work! Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > What method do you use to detect mobile-or-not? > > > On 1/2/2013 3:33 PM, Ken Irwin wrote: >> >> Sarah asks about how to direct users to mobile versions of databases where >> appropriate. >> >> The way I'm doing it is: >> 1. All database links are served up from a database table, so the link on >> our website is http://$OUR_LIBRARY/redirect?$db_id >> 2. The db-of-dbs knows if there is a mobile specific url (because we put >> it there...) >> 3. Detect mobile-or-not as a binary value >> 4. Serve up the right one as an HTTP header redirect >> >> One big exception: EBSCO (which provides a really large number of our >> databases) handles their mobile access by using the same URL with a >> different profile name in the url. The redirect script has a special case >> that says if ($mobile = true and $ebsco = true) { do string replace on the >> url to change from the desktop url to the mobile url } -- so I don't have to >> list both versions of the URL in the database. >> >> It seems to work out pretty well. >> >> Ken >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >> Sarah Dooley >> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:25 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live >> >> Very cool--congratulations! >> >> In addition to Dave's questions, I'd be curious to know (can't see it >> since I don't have a login) how you handled directing people to databases >> that have mobile versions. This is something I've been wondering about for >> our site down the road and library sites in general--from a responsive site, >> how to effectively link people out to vendor-provided resources that are >> either mobile or non-mobile. >> >> -Sarah Dooley >> >> >