Tag Archives: Content Adaptation
Device Detection in the Cloud: DeviceAtlas Personal
June 19, 2010, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
In this article we offer full tutorial on how to use the preview release of the service. So what is DA Personal? The purpose of DeviceAtlas Personal is to make device detection even easier. The main difference between DA Personal and DeviceAtlas, is that Personal is a Web service. It works as follows: a user visits your Web site on his mobile device. You then forward the User-Agent HTTP request header to the DA Personal service, and the response you receive will contain information about the user's device. That's it!... Read More
A minimal mobile-aware web app with Python & cloud-based device detection
September 21, 2009, by ronan
In this article we'll look at a how to make a minimal device-aware web application. The point of this article is not to demonstrate a useful application but rather to show just how little code is required to make an app that is fully device aware, and that can change its presentation entirely depending on the nature of the device accessing it... Read More
The Beauty of Mobile Device Data
September 16, 2009, by ronan
Recently at dotMobi we have been investigating how to make our DeviceAtlas device detection even better, while at the same time trying to keep the size of the distributable database as compact as possible. As some of you may know, DeviceAtlas uses a tree of data stored in a very compact JSON file to distribute our device data knowledge. The actual format of this JSON file is a Patricia tree organised around the user-agent strings of the devices that we have data about... Read More
Testing Mobile Web Sites Using Firefox
August 12, 2009, by mokil
Before you ever begin testing your mobile site to determine how it looks on handsets, you should make sure the functionality of the site is working as you expect. This is not always straightforward, as you want to approximate the mobile environment as closely as possible. Fortunately, Mozilla Firefox supports some great extensions that can make testing your mobile sites a piece of cake. This article explains how to set Firefox up to act as a first pass test environment for your site... Read More
User-Agent Switcher for Safari 4
June 30, 2009, by atrasatti
The User Agent Switcher plug-in for Firefox has been a GREAT add-on and we all love it. 1 year and 27 weeks ago Ronan wrote a really simple, but useful configuration file for it that is available here on mobiForge (if you use Firefox it's a MUST: [url=http://www.mobiforge.com/developing/blog/user-agent-switcher-config-file]User Agent Switcher config file[/url])... Read More
