On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:04:28PM -0500, Adam Richardson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson <[1]simpleshot@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster > <[2]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: > [3]http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html > � This gets directly at the answer, but also proves that there's no practical way of using the information. There are simply too many variations, and more to come. Great reference. I didn't find it in my prior research on Google. > > 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: > [4]http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/how-to-serve-the-right-content-to-mobile/ > > Apologies, I sent the wrong link last time: > [5]http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/the-mobile-web-optimization-guide/ > Adam Thanks, Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
