Re: Is window.navigator.userAgent reliable ?
jonatec I suppose .UserAgent used in a post-load js may be useful to determine mobile device or notIf at all you want to detect device/browser with .UserAgent, I would recomment you to use51degree.mobi...
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Hi,If you could detect device,you can set tag value. User-Agent header will do the trick.So I think you can use this js file:Detect Mobile Browsersand you can see some like about the User-agent comment...
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Thanks for that.I suppose .UserAgent used in a post-load js may be useful to determine mobile device or not, and then perhaps dynamically setting the <meta tag scale so that pinch/zoom is disabled ??
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jonatec ie user gets redirected to a separate site for mobile devices. In this case isn't device detection necessary to effect the redirect?hellojonatec you can use css media queries to transform...
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One of the major points of Responsive Design is not to have to handle redirects to other "mobile" sites (as it will be determine if it is mobile or not based on the size of the ViewPort and not the...
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If you have a site with a large and cluttered content area, which is probably ok on a desktop/laptop, surely a responsive design will look rediculous on a smartphone with tiny viewport. In this...
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User agent is not reliable. Firefox, chrome and safari let you pretend any agent string you want. Also there are 1000s of agent strings. A new one with every smart phone. Modernizr does not use it but...
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What happens to the value of .userAgent if the user changes the browser config ?
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As DarthSwian mentioned, if Modernizr uses the window.navigator.userAgent property, I would say that it would be reliable (as Modernizr is used all over and is considered a solid product for handling...
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That's what Modernizr uses, so I'd say its pretty reliable.
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Is this a reliable means of devicedetection, ie iPad, iPhone, Android, etc.. ?Or is there a sensible alternative ?Is there a definitive list of device names ?Many thanks..
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