Is there a way for my website to redirect handheld and mobile browsers
to another set of pages that are optimized for mobile/tiny browsers?
I've seen this done but I couldn't find any sign of a redirect in the
html.

I've looked for information about this in usenet archives, but to no
avail.

Thanks very much for any help in advance!

Carla <carlatec@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there a way for my website to redirect handheld and mobile browsers
> to another set of pages that are optimized for mobile/tiny browsers?[/color]

The best way is to create a structurally logical page with the proper,
current, and valid HTML. A PDA should display this just fine.
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Michael Wilcox
mjwilco at yahoo dot com
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carlatec@hotmail.com (Carla) wrote in message news:<1e209d80.0402261548.29ca61ff@posting.google. com>...[color=blue]
> Is there a way for my website to redirect handheld and mobile browsers
> to another set of pages that are optimized for mobile/tiny browsers?[/color]

If you really want to do this then you will have to parse the
User-Agents of the incoming requests and then serve the appropriate
pages. Or you could use dynamically built pages dependant on
User-Agent.

Have a look at the specifications for UAProf (
www.openmobilealliance.org/ ) and CC/PP Processing (
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/CCPP/ ) as work is well underway for
tailoring content to specific devices. There are some Java API's
around for working with the UAProf and CC/PP spec:

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communitypr...188/index.html.

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communitypr...124/index.html.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...?forum_id=9261

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:32:21 GMT, "Michael Wilcox"
<mjwilcoDONTWANTSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Carla <carlatec@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> Is there a way for my website to redirect handheld and mobile browsers
>> to another set of pages that are optimized for mobile/tiny browsers?[/color]
>
>The best way is to create a structurally logical page with the proper,
>current, and valid HTML.[/color]

And with a flexible layout, of course: no fixed table widths or any
absolute length units.

And with a stylesheet using media type "handheld". This could, for
example, suppress certain decorative images.
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>A PDA should display this just fine.[/color]

I can (with difficulty) think of one or two cases where it might be
necessary to provide a separate page/subsite for a PDA, but offering the
user a link to get to it is much more reliable than trying to redirect
based on browser-sniffing.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/