Comments on: Approaches to Mobile Web Development Part 2 – Separate Sites http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2011/05/13/approaches-to-mobile-web-development-part-2-separate-sites/ For make benefit of glorious tubes Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:13:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jason Grlicky http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2011/05/13/approaches-to-mobile-web-development-part-2-separate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-216389 Jason Grlicky Mon, 23 May 2011 20:21:14 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=1710#comment-216389 Samat: If I’m not mistaken, I think both AMO and SUMO are using the django-mobility library to house their shared detection logic:

https://github.com/jbalogh/django-mobility

Hope that helps!

]]> By: Samat http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2011/05/13/approaches-to-mobile-web-development-part-2-separate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-216352 Samat Thu, 19 May 2011 05:49:38 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=1710#comment-216352 Could someone list where in the AMO and SUMO codebases user agent detection is performed?

]]> By: groovecoder http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2011/05/13/approaches-to-mobile-web-development-part-2-separate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-216331 groovecoder Wed, 18 May 2011 02:59:31 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=1710#comment-216331 love these posts. inspiring for what we’ll do with developer.mozilla.org

]]> By: Steve Fink http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2011/05/13/approaches-to-mobile-web-development-part-2-separate-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-216054 Steve Fink Fri, 13 May 2011 19:49:40 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/?p=1710#comment-216054 It seems worth mentioning that another drawback of this approach is that a web site’s idea of what works on a mobile device is often very different from the actual users’, to the point that many mobile users prefer to use the desktop version. It’s a big hammer, and it’s very easy to get lazy and smash some fingers with it.

Sometimes it’s a matter of the site author guessing wrong (or not tailoring properly to what makes mobile different); sometimes it’s different motivations (eg it may be easier to get to the content and avoid ads on the desktop version.)

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