Hi Mark,

Not using a CMS at this point, but I did use Twitter
Bootstrap<http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>.
So there's no browser detection, just media queries on width.

Ron


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mark Pernotto <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
>