Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/15/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
How is it in the Classic or Simple skin?
Is there a way where you can get the simple view, without having to go
through preferences? It'd be great if we had something like
en.wikipedia.org/wikisimple/Some_Page...
Steve
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Just a thought: mobile phone and PDA users will generally be using
specialized browser software, doing so through HTML-to-WAP gateways, or
proxies that attempt to simplify pages for rendering on small screens.
If we could auto-detect these by User-Agent string, and use a custom
skin for these clients, we could greatly improve the experience for
small-screen users.
I've found lists of mobile client browser strings at
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html and
http://www.cantoni.org/2005/02/03/mobile-ua
Google's wireless proxy apparently reports itself as
"Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Google
Wireless Transcoder;)", according to
http://cleverhack.com/2006/08/06/google-wap-proxy-user-agent/
and some information on the i-mode user agent is provided here:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/tag/s2.html
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/spec/useragent.html
There is a sourceforge project that provides a LGPL'd Perl class for
mobile user agent sniffing which claims to work correctly for over 2000
different mobile devices:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobileuseragent/
-- Neil