Questions tagged [mobile-website]

Mobile Website refers to the design and implementation of web content aimed at clients using mobile devices such as phones or tablets.

Mobile websites allow us to consume information that has been formatted to better fit the browser on our mobile devices.

When consuming content from a phone or tablet, websites that were not designed for these devices can often be difficult to navigate or interpret. Mobile websites bridge this gap by offering content designed specifically for mobile consumption.

Some solutions include redirecting users to a separate mobile web sites or using media queries or some other browser detection to serve alternate styling or HTML.

Another consideration of mobile websites is that of page weight. Because many mobile browsers use mobile carrier networks to connect to the internet, it is a good practice to conserve the amount of data your page requires. These practices may include compressed scripts or resources, smaller images suited specifically for mobile consumptions, or otherwise reducing page size by breaking up the content into more manageable areas/pages.

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Multi-device architecture

I'm at the moment trying to make up a "core" for my multi-device project. The project is all about a web application, that authenticates the user by facebook login, and then exposes a set of new actions they can do - ex. Get all records in the…
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Is it possible for any iPhone Barcode Scanner to scan barcode from web page and pass code back to page?

Scanning barcode from web page and passing this code back to same page is possible in Android using http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ tool. Android app can be invoked successfully from webpage, scans the barcode and sends to code back to same…
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How to remove click-to-call links for IE mobile browsers

Hi I am able to remove click-to-call links for labels / numbers in Iphone & Blackberry by keeping the above tags in the header part. //for Safari
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How can I prevent images that are on my desktop site from loading on mobile?

So I currently have a website that loads two different versions depending on screen size: one for desktop and one for mobile. For some reason, the images that I display on the desktop version of my site load on the mobile version. Is there a way no…
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Should I use userAgent or appVersion to track visiting browsers to my website?

As web browsing continues to change due to apps with "web view" widgets, tablets, etc., I want to track hits to my website based on browser-type so I can proactively tailor content and presentation. When I examine a small handful of web browsers…
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Mobile touch support -- In Closure-library

I was just wondering if we have a specific library or framework built on the closure-library , which is specifically designed for touch devices(Android or Ipad). I already have my web-app using the closure-library, now want to maintain consistency…
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CSS3 Media Queries are not working

I've recently been developing a mobile version for a website, and quite simply want to be able to change the CSS file if the browser is detected to be on a mobile device. You can view my previous attempts here, but I have now decided that the most…
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How to start the camera directly from a web page in android

Im trying to make a webapp for Android in which i can upload pictures. I have a web page with a fileupload field. When I push the button I can choose which app i would like to use to choose the file to upload. Is it posible (and how) to have the…
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IIS/ASP/ASP.net: How to structure web-site to expose mobile version

Pretend i have an existing web-site, e.g.: www.stackoverflow.com i now want to expose a mobile version of this web-site: m.stackoverflow.com IIS, with its host-header name resolution, would normally require two web-sites to be…
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Problem in case using multiple favicons in same domain

We have 'abc.com' and users have their own page with 'abc.com/userid' Users set favicon for thier page, and published. But some browsers(iOS Safari) replace all favicons in bookmarks which already exist This is step: I add bookmark 'abc.com/user1'…
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JSF based framework for touch websites

What is a good JSF based framework for developing web sites optimized for touch smartphones (i.e. with android)? Thanks in advance.
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Force download mp3 for mobile site on iPhone

I'm working on a little mobile site for a musician and they want to be able to let users download a song for free on their mobile device. The problem I'm running into is that in Safari for iPhone the song plays in the browser no matter what and does…
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View full website, not mobile version on iPhone

I have a script that detects whether you're an iPhone user or not and redirects to a more iPhone friendly page.