OT: html coding question - Thanks

[Michael Torres]

If you are using PHP as your server side code, this is a good class that
provides that functionality that I need to detect info about different
platforms....


http://mobiledetect.net/

Mike

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:

> Be very careful with this "feature".  I can not count the number of sites
> where they lost my business because it was not done well.  Some of these
> sites will see "Android" or "iOS" and just assume its a phone.  Then I hit
> it on my 10.2" tablet, and it looks stupid.  Often, these sites are "auto
> detecting" and don't just default, so there is no way to ask for the
> regular site.  When done well, its nice when the site is smart enough to
> offer a good default and also offer to not filter and deliver the regular
> HTML page.  Also, make sure that if you do offer mobile, and you have a
> link to deliver the full page instead, that this option sticks as you move
> throughout the site.  I have one utility pay site that f's up when I go to
> it with the tablet, but offers the "pc" page.  Click on it, and it will fix
> the page you are on... click a link, and you are back to the "mobile"
> version... click on the "pc" link again, and it takes you back the the main
> page.  If this was a business I had an option to not do business with (its
> our local utility and I am stuck with them), I wouldn't.  So as I said, be
> careful and test, test, test
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks Eric and Nathan!
>>
>> -----------
>> > There are many frameworks which do what you want, namely
>> > bootstrap or Foundation. I think ultimately what you want
>> > is css @media queries. Do some digging on that and search
>> > for detecting media type or screen size and displaying
>> > a specific css for that device.
>>
>> -----------
>> > Joe asked:
>> >> Is there a way to set up an html page so that it will be
>> >> displayed at one size on a mobile device, but then make all
>> >> of the multiple small images that make up the html page scaled
>> >> down to a different (much smaller) size on a desktop computer?
>>
>>
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