Comments on: Making your blog friendly to mobile devices http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:10:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Paul S http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/stories-tutorials-and-code-demonstrations/making-your-blog-friendly-to-mobile-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-63491 Paul S Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:13:54 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/stories-tutorials-and-code-demonstrations/making-your-blog-friendly-to-mobile-devices/#comment-63491 This is a pretty tricky topic. There are a few options when it comes to automatically detecting mobile devices and redirecting accordingly. Using .htaccess you sniff the user agent and compare it with a huge list of known (and ever increasing) user agents that correspond with various models of mobile phones, I personally don't like this approach because of the need to keep it up to date. I went for the "if accepts wml" approach: RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} text/vnd.wap.wml RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mobile RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /mobile/ [L] I couldn't get your complex regular expression to work for me so just typed it out as text/vnd.wap.wml and it worked. Not sure what the implications are. This is a pretty tricky topic. There are a few options when it comes to automatically detecting mobile devices and redirecting accordingly. Using .htaccess you sniff the user agent and compare it with a huge list of known (and ever increasing) user agents that correspond with various models of mobile phones, I personally don’t like this approach because of the need to keep it up to date.

I went for the “if accepts wml” approach:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} text/vnd.wap.wml
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mobile
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ /mobile/ [L]

I couldn’t get your complex regular expression to work for me so just typed it out as text/vnd.wap.wml and it worked. Not sure what the implications are.

]]> By: Aman http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/stories-tutorials-and-code-demonstrations/making-your-blog-friendly-to-mobile-devices/comment-page-1/#comment-63340 Aman Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:24:30 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/stories-tutorials-and-code-demonstrations/making-your-blog-friendly-to-mobile-devices/#comment-63340 Hey very nice post. Well i hope this code works for me and makes my blog better for mobile devices. Thanks in advance :) Hey very nice post. Well i hope this code works for me and makes my blog better for mobile devices. Thanks in advance :)

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