With the deployment of advanced mobile phones (Android, iPhone, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry) we are experiencing the strongest growth of navigation via mobile browser. The most important sites are already taken care of and allocation to courses introducing their versions for browsers light taken from mobile phones. And you?
In this article we present a piece of JavaScript code that can come in handy if you intend to modify the site to make it compatible with mobile browsers.
Javascript function: How to recognize mobile browser
<script type="text/javascript"> / / <! [CDATA [
var = Mobile
(Mobile
document.location = " http://www.yoursite.com/mobile.html ";
} / / ]]></ script>
How does it work?
The browser version is read from the property navigator.userAgent with Javascript that returns a string object with which you can find the name and version of any web browser
A sample output navigator.userAgent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-Update1; en-us;
ADR6300 Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/530.17 Mobile
