Comments on: Why Browser Sniffing is a step backwards for the Mobile Web http://mobile.somerandomnerd.com/2008/12/why-browser-sniffing-is-a-step-backwards-for-the-mobile-web/ For when it won't wait till you get to a computer. Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:22:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SomeRandomNerd http://mobile.somerandomnerd.com/2008/12/why-browser-sniffing-is-a-step-backwards-for-the-mobile-web/comment-page-1/#comment-84 SomeRandomNerd Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:14:54 +0000 http://mobile.somerandomnerd.com/2008/12/why-browser-sniffing-is-a-step-backwards-for-the-mobile-web/#comment-84 Hi James, Thanks for the link- looks like an interesting article. Will have a read... Hi James,

Thanks for the link- looks like an interesting article. Will have a read…

]]> By: James Pearce http://mobile.somerandomnerd.com/2008/12/why-browser-sniffing-is-a-step-backwards-for-the-mobile-web/comment-page-1/#comment-82 James Pearce Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:11:20 +0000 http://mobile.somerandomnerd.com/2008/12/why-browser-sniffing-is-a-step-backwards-for-the-mobile-web/#comment-82 Although mobiThinking is our sister site, there's a little more colour and thought on this topic at http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/a-very-modern-mobile-switching-algorithm-part-i This tries to take into account device capabilities, user choice, differing services and so on - hopefully the gist of what you were getting at. Incidentally, one would be foolish to use DeviceAtlas simply to be able to do this. A simple code-based switcher will suffice (and that's what we do in part II of the article) Thanks for the coverage though. Although mobiThinking is our sister site, there’s a little more colour and thought on this topic at

http://mobiforge.com/designing/story/a-very-modern-mobile-switching-algorithm-part-i

This tries to take into account device capabilities, user choice, differing services and so on – hopefully the gist of what you were getting at.

Incidentally, one would be foolish to use DeviceAtlas simply to be able to do this. A simple code-based switcher will suffice (and that’s what we do in part II of the article)

Thanks for the coverage though.

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