Klog: Kathy Reid's Blog » user agent http://blog.kathyreid.id.au Posts on ITIL, Kepner Tregoe, knitting, PHP and other free and open source (FOSS) tools Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:04:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My blog is mobile! http://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2008/06/11/my-blog-is-mobile/ http://blog.kathyreid.id.au/2008/06/11/my-blog-is-mobile/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:05:34 +0000 KathyReid http://blog.kathyreid.id.au/?p=37

I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Edition plugin for WordPress, which means my blog is mobile.
So, does that make it a moblog or a blobile ??? :)

So, if you’re viewing this on a web browser you’re probably wondering what the site actually looks like on a mobile device. I can’t take a picture of it (d’uh!), but it’s basically a plain text list of recent posts – with all the formatting taken out.

I was curious as to how the plugin detects whether the user-agent is mobile. It was straightforward. An array of user agent strings for small browsers (DoCoMo, Wii, Symbian) is created, and if the user agent matches an element of the array, then the plugin generates a mobile-friendly layout.

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