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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Is there something similar to iOS's canOpenURL to check URL schemes for mobile browsers?

Possible Duplicate: iPhone Safari: check if URL scheme is supported in javascript? I'm using pic2shop to provide barcode scanning for a mobile web app. For iOS, one can check [canOpenURL] to see if a particular scheme is valid (tel://,…
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How to put the Amazon Kindle Web Browser into Article Mode

How do you put the Amazon Kindle web browser into Article Mode via HTML or Javascript? Editor's note: Some pages are not automatically detected as "articles" by the Kindle 3 browser, and give an error message when trying to go into Article mode.…
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Detecting mobile browser in GWT

I want to implement a web application with separate user interface for mobile and PC. Do you know how can I detect whether it is mobile or not? In general, do you have any suggestion for implementing such application in GWT?
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How to add "Share on whatsapp" button on mobile website for iOS

Adding whatsapp share button on website, for iOS8. I am using the following:
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Disable auto-rotate in Jquery Mobile or PhoneGap

Although cross platform development for mobile devices is so good. There isn't a simple option to disable auto-rotate or lock into one orientation i.e. portrait or landscape. Is there anyway either in Jquery Mobile, PhoneGap, XUI anywhere ? If yes…
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Backbone.js suitable for mobile devices?

I've been looking into backbone.js lately and like both the philosophy and the execution a great deal. Is anyone using Backbone on HTML5 IOS interfaces? What are your experiences with this approach?
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SpringMVC - Change view when accessed by Mobile

I was wondering if someone has already solved this. I have a SpringMVC app and we are adding support to WebKit type mobiles (iPhone and Android basically) so I was wondering someone has found an elegant way of defining specific views depending on…
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I have a mobile website but it loads zoomed out. How can I fix this?

I have a mobile website but it loads zoomed out. How can I fix this.
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How to detect mobile device and get user agent info send and save that information to database on server, only once?

Is there any script to check user agent then send and save that information to database on server? I'm making mobile website with 2 versions like m.facebook.com and touch.facebook.com and I want to redirect to different mobiles. and I use WURFL…
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Embed youtube for mobile page

Is there a way to embed a link to a youtube video, so that the video will play in fullscreen on a mobile phone when the user click on the link? The default iframe embed code will play the video inline on android phones -( If I go to m.youtube.com…
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Is there a way to force horizontal / landscape layout on mobile devices?

I'm building a mobile version of a website, and in this specific case it would look perfect in horizontal layout. Is there a way to force this layout no matter user setting are? Answer with some universal way is appreciated, but also if you know how…
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Force Numeric Keyboard for Mobile Device

This is not a "mobile" website. It is regular HTML/CSS. Is there a way I can force mobile devices to popup with the numeric keyboard when they focus on my textboxes?
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Fixed positioning for mobile browsers

On the mobile site I'm building, I need the top header to stay fixed positioned. I am aware of the fixed position solution for Mobile Safari as seen here: http://doctyper.com/archives/200808/fixed-positioning-on-mobile-safari/ I tried it and it…
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Detect browser support for HTML Media Capture

How can I detect browser support for HTML Media Capture* ? The traditional way of testing if an attribute is supported doesn't seem to work on some devices (tested on iPad and Google Nexus): var elm = document.createElement(input); if (capture…
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Is there an actively maintained mobile UI for Django admin?

I'm using Django Grappelli as a skin for the Django admin interface. However, the design is not responsive. Users on mobile devices need to do a lot of zooming and panning. The mobile admin projects I've found so far seem to have been abandoned in…
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