Comments on: Proper testing for browser types

By: magenta

magenta — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

The Hiptop is a very nice browser-cellphone. Mine reports a user-agent string of Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; AvantGo 3.2; ProxiNet; Danger hiptop 1.0) (which means the AvantGo check will work for it too).

By: Arno

Arno — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Here in Holland and other parts of Europe, I-mode is introduced. I-mode was first developed by NTT-DoCoMo in Japan. It uses cHTML as markup language. I don't know what the browser broadcasts itself like, maybe someone else here does?

Also, there is the Live! Service by Vodafone which is similar to I-mode. I know that uses wap 1.2 (is that a possible ml?). But I am not sure whether you can visit only pages on a "closed" network for that service or that it is possible to request regular internet URL's?

By: bobby g.

bobby g. — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

hi amy–

just fyi, the "Avant" browser is an IE-shell for Windows. it's pretty cool. it's different than the AvantGo service for handhelds.

By: doc

doc — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks. I knew it had to be something that easy, but my PHP vocabulary is pretty poor…;)

I put this below my DOCTYPE statement and before the tag.. Thats the correct place, or should it be in the HEAD section??

By: Doc

Doc — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to ask.
How could I modify that string to redirect to a different page. I keep a separate PDA-Browser friendly page instead of using skins and I would like to redirect people using those browsers to the pda friendly page automatically.

Thanks.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yep - that should be an easy one, assuming that this check is done prior to sending out any HTML.

To do it, change

$skin = "13";

header("Location: http://seadoc.net/pda.php");

Side note: nice to see that I'm not the only person who claims Huntsville, AL as home who is reading this site.

By: doc

doc — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There are a few other PDA-Based browsers out there, but I would test for Internet Explorer 3.0 as well. PocketPCs and Windows CE handheld PCs have a built in version of IE that broadcasts itself as IE 3.0.

They work rather well, but using the stripped down version of the skin would definitely save them some time, and woe be to anyone still using 3.0 on the desktop..;)