Comments for robjwood.com http://robjwood.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:42:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on How to start building a mobile website by Mungo http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-31 Mungo Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:42:44 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-31 Sorry for the delay - I didn't get an email to say this thread had been updated. There are only two stylesheets - standard and mobile but a class is also put in the body tag with the actual browser type (e.g. "ff3") so you can tweak per browser without having to rely on hacks. (mobile or otherwise) Essentially the server has a regular expression which checks against various names and versions in the HTTP header, determines if it's a mobile browser - and if so prefixes the word "mobile" to any stylesheet - and then spits out the browser name for the body too. Simples. Sorry for the delay – I didn’t get an email to say this thread had been updated.

There are only two stylesheets – standard and mobile but a class is also put in the body tag with the actual browser type (e.g. “ff3″) so you can tweak per browser without having to rely on hacks. (mobile or otherwise)

Essentially the server has a regular expression which checks against various names and versions in the HTTP header, determines if it’s a mobile browser – and if so prefixes the word “mobile” to any stylesheet – and then spits out the browser name for the body too.

Simples.

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by ehhwhat.co.uk http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-30 ehhwhat.co.uk Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:46:54 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-30 Mark, how does this work from a server side point of view? Do you have a huge list of mobile browsers and if one of them is detected it serves the specific stylesheet or is it cleverer than that? Thank you please Mark, how does this work from a server side point of view? Do you have a huge list of mobile browsers and if one of them is detected it serves the specific stylesheet or is it cleverer than that?

Thank you please

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by Mungo http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-29 Mungo Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:28:10 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-29 Hi Rob, Here's the website I was on about earlier which uses that server side trick: http://www.moviedraft.com All the best, Mark. Hi Rob,

Here’s the website I was on about earlier which uses that server side trick:

http://www.moviedraft.com

All the best,

Mark.

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by ehhwhat.co.uk http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-25 ehhwhat.co.uk Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:50:50 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-25 you being serious? you being serious?

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by Mungo http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-24 Mungo Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:11:58 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-24 Ah, the 6 million dollar question. I'm hoping to launch it in the next two weeks (it's finished bar some content and integration with my app) so will post a link when I have. Ah, the 6 million dollar question.

I’m hoping to launch it in the next two weeks (it’s finished bar some content and integration with my app) so will post a link when I have.

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by robjwood http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-23 robjwood Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:15:26 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-23 Media queries are far from perfect, especially as you're still downloading assets that the user won't need. In an ideal world there'd be both server and client magic happening in harmony. Is there a live example of your server-side method in action anywhere? Media queries are far from perfect, especially as you’re still downloading assets that the user won’t need. In an ideal world there’d be both server and client magic happening in harmony.

Is there a live example of your server-side method in action anywhere?

]]> Comment on How to start building a mobile website by Mungo http://robjwood.com/blog/2012/how-to-start-building-a-mobile-website/#comment-22 Mungo Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:19:57 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=93#comment-22 I was recently in this position and decided against the media queries approach by instead writing my own server-side code that detects whether the request came through on a mobile browser or not and if so render a mobile version of the stylesheet. It made more sense to me to have two completely separate, dedicated, stylesheets as it seems cleaner in my mind (and doesn't require any JavaScript), but I think both methods have their advantages and drawbacks. Nice article though, Rob. I was recently in this position and decided against the media queries approach by instead writing my own server-side code that detects whether the request came through on a mobile browser or not and if so render a mobile version of the stylesheet.

It made more sense to me to have two completely separate, dedicated, stylesheets as it seems cleaner in my mind (and doesn’t require any JavaScript), but I think both methods have their advantages and drawbacks.

Nice article though, Rob.

]]> Comment on CSS layouts using table styles by ehhwhat.co.uk http://robjwood.com/blog/2011/css-layouts-using-table-styles/#comment-9 ehhwhat.co.uk Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:14:52 +0000 http://robjwood.com/?p=84#comment-9 Thanks Rob this is actually really useful and will come in great handy with my next project Thanks Rob this is actually really useful and will come in great handy with my next project

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