[support] Best practices for mobile sites in Drupal

[Mark Shropshire]

Laura,

You are right, the iPhone does not pay attention to mobile  
stylesheets. The only thing I have been able to do is switch  
stylesheets when "iPhone" is in the the useragent string.

Thanks,
Mark

On Sep 30, 2007, at 3:45 PM, Laura Scott wrote:

> The document header in your page template can call up a different
> stylesheet for your mobile visitors. Something like
>
> <style type="text/css" media="handheld">@import...</style>
>
> Aside from your basic semantic structuring (and avoiding table-based
> layouts), there are css practices that can help. See http://
> www.alistapart.com/articles/pocket/ for some tips.
>
> One wrinkle in all this: My understanding is that Safari in the
> iPhone does not honor mobile stylesheets. Go figure.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> Laura
>
> On Sep 30, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Albert Cuesta wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone
>>
>> After a bit of research, I have concluded that there are two main
>> approaches to creating mobile-enabled versions of existing Drupal
>> sites:
>>
>> * Using the mobile theme <http://drupal.org/project/mobile> and
>> setting up some theme switcher / URL alias to redirect requests to
>> 'clean' pages
>> * Using the .mobi loader module
>> <http://drupal.org/project/mobi_loader> + .mobi theme
>> <http://drupal.org/project/mobi> combo, so all requests for the
>> site.mobi domain are intercepted and get the 'clean' theme.  
>> However, I
>> have found it quite buggy, so many requests for the mobile site are
>> still getting the default theme, as reported here
>> <http://drupal.org/node/163541>
>>
>> Besides, none of these two themes pass the compatibility tests at
>> http://mtld.mobi
>>
>> How are you managing the mobile versions of your sites? Has anyone
>> combined the above two approaches?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any comments and suggestions.
>>
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>> Albert Cuesta
>> http://www.canalpda.com
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