Comments on: iPhone & iPod Detection Using JavaScript

By: Brandon Crooks

Brandon Crooks — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:12:49 +0000

I agree. Sometimes the water’ed down version of a site dramatically reduces usability. I’m pretty sure you can implement a link to redirect to a page without mobile redirection.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:03:06 +0000

I’ve searched for hours for different ways of detecting browsers:
As a designer with limited knowledge of javascript and php, this has been the only example I’ve found that makes sense and actually works. Thank you for your rare ability to explain code that i now understand and actually works for me. (I dont care if php is better, I cant get it to work and is therefore useless to me, if you want to get high and mighty, with php, write an understandable tutorial and then maybe non geeks will use it)

By: Amber Mejias

Amber Mejias — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:11:26 +0000

Thanks a million. It took me two days just to find this fix. :o)

By: Okto

Okto — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:52:51 +0000

I prefer css media, but this snippet help me to much for hiding toolbar in IOS, and not in the browsers users, preventing the user lose the point of the site when refreshing or sending a form.

if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) { //if IOS do this things: window.addEventListener('load', function() { setTimeout(scrollTo, 0, 0, 1); }, false); }

By: Okto

Okto — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:51:35 +0000

I prefer css media, but this snippet help me to much for hiding toolbar in IOS, and not in the browsers users, preventing the user lose the point of the site when refreshing or sending a form.

if((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i))) { //if IOS do this things:
window.addEventListener(‘load’, function() {
setTimeout(scrollTo, 0, 0, 1);
}, false);
}

By: Bernie

Bernie — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:44:40 +0000

Hello David,

why in all mobile site their domain starts with “m” like m.mysite.com is that only a subdomain or once the site run in mobile phones the “m” will automatically replace the www.

Thanks

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:07:10 +0000

Wow! It works perfectly!

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 25 May 2011 12:03:58 +0000

This method works great – I use it for http://www.digisolved.com and it works great!

By: webworks

webworks — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:35:11 +0000

indeed PHP is much better for user-agents detect… avoiding redirects or links altering.. like mobile.domain.com .. or domain.com/mobile .

But as @Omari said .. or for those who do not use/have PHP available .. or any other serverside, javascript is a good idea.

Also .. to be helpfull here are some other mobile extentions that would help.

also .. for PHP .. use preg_match instead of strstr … is faster

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:34:19 +0000

I’m having a bit of trouble with this. I put the code in the head of my main website (the desktop version). And went into the CP of my hosting provider and created a subdomain (the domain for the web version). I directed it to look into a specific folder for the files and when I go to the url it redirects me like it should to the web version but all the css, javascript, images (basically any links) have been stripped and don’t work/appear at all.

Anyone have any ideas?