Mobile redirection
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Hi,
What would be the best practice for mobile detection:
- Best practice for redirections
- Best practice for detection and inclusion of a front-end element inviting to a mobile version of the site
I found this on www.W3C.org but it's from 2008 and I was wondering if any of you tried different approaches concerning mobile detection.
Thanks!
GaB
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This site should help you: detectmobilebrowsers.com
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If it's a normal website, not something dynamic that requires HTML5 / app-style functionality, then the best practice in my opinion is to display a different stylesheet based upon device (screen size, basically). This avoids duplicate content issues, rel canonical implementation, and page authority getting split between normal & mobile versions of the site.
Check out this article from Smashing Magazine regarding designing for mobile:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/11/03/how-to-build-a-mobile-website/#mobile-stylesheets
The section marked "CLIENT-SIDE METHODS & MEDIA QUERIES" explains how to do it, it's basically paraphrasing the original article on A List Apart.
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