On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson <simpleshot@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> This is sort of obliquely related to PHP. >> >> I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things: >> >> 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have >> their own stripped down versions of browsers? >> > > Both, although more and more smart phones join the ranks of the > desktop-quality browser every day (iPhone and Android both have very > capable browsers, with the iPhone's omission of flash support being the > biggest difference between these two.) > > >> >> 2) When a browser broadcasts its header telling the server what kind of >> browser is involved, do they broadcast anything in the header to >> indicate that they're being run on a smart phone? >> > > Yes, but that gets complicated quickly: > http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html > > >> >> 3) Bonus question: Is there a preferred method amongst coders to >> determine what type of environment is being browsed from, so as to serve >> up the proper type of page (desktop or smart phone version of a >> webpage)? >> > > To supplement the alistapart link already mentioned, here's another recent > writeup: > > http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/how-to-serve-the-right-content-to-mobile/ > Apologies, I sent the wrong link last time: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-mobile-web-optimization-guide/ Adam
