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ruby-on-railsruby-on-rails-3internet-explorermobile-fu
Srikanth Jeeva
Srikanth Jeeva

Reputation: 3011

Mobile-Fu detects desktop IE as tablet

Usually Majority of IE sends this useragent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)

but some IE sends this Useragent

  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8)

I have 2 layouts, application.html.haml & application.mobile.haml
As the second one includes "Tablet PC 2.0" Mobile-Fu sets the format to :tablet which not rendering the layout in my rails App.

Kindly help me in fixing this Issue. Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 317

Answers (1)

Srikanth Jeeva
Srikanth Jeeva

Reputation: 3011

Temporarily i fixed by changing the user agent if request is from IE & includes Tablet PC,

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  before_filter :change_user_agent_for_ie

  def change_user_agent_for_ie
    if request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"].include?("Tablet PC 2.0") && (request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"].include?("MSIE"))
      request.env["HTTP_USER_AGENT"] = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; MS-RTC LM 8)"
    end
  end

Not sure what will the permanent fix for this.

Upvotes: 0

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