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jeffreynolte
jeffreynolte

Reputation: 3779

mobile detection between 2 different platforms

I am in the process of wrapping up a mobile site and I need to give the user the option to switch from the mobile(jQuery mobile) site to the desktop version of the site. I am planning on using the code below for detection on both sides and then setting a cookie if the user makes the preference of one or the other site (mobile / desktop). I am curious to know best practice for this type of thing as I feel this will work well but not sure if there is a better way.

var isMobile = navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf('mobile') > -1

Thanks in advance,

JN

Upvotes: 2

Views: 85

Answers (1)

Brian Antonelli
Brian Antonelli

Reputation: 734

There are many ways to do it but because there are so many variations of user agents it can definitely be tricky. However, there is a nice script out there that solves this problem fairly elegantly. It also handles the cookie'ing that you touched on as well.

https://github.com/sebarmeli/JS-Redirection-Mobile-Site

Upvotes: 1

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