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
>>
>>
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