Mobile device detection
Is Christmas a time for blog posting?
Certainly a chance to review the year, and catch up on things that have been missed. I’ve been lax in not keeping up with progress in mobile content delivery for instance, but it’s not out of choice.
Scanning some emails and posts just now I came across a summary of what’s been hapenning over at the mobiForge (ex dev.mobi) and I feel unbearable guilt that I haven’t tried their DeviceAtlas yet. But I do note with some satisafction that in one article they’re plugging the use of a lightwieght device detection function from Andy Moore that seems to do a similar thing (but no doubt much better) to what I was playing with a couple of years back.
New Years resolution - make the time to keep up with this stuff, ‘cos it interests me and I’ll need it one day! (see Perl xkcd strip!)
[...] Many platforms make it quite simple to do this - there are mobile modules and plugins I’ve seen (and used) for Wordpress, Drupal etc. - if you’ve got server side logic, and preferably some form of content management / delivery system going on, it should be not much more than switching to a simpler theme for your presentation when a mobile device is detected. [...]
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