I am building a site that uses the iPhone redirect action on the main page, to redirect iOS users to an iPhone-friendlier homepage. So, obviously, if someone navigates to my site from an iOS device, they get redirected to my mobile subdomain. That works great.
Now, at the bottom of my mobile site, I have a link to view the “full site”, should an iOS user want to see the regular homepage. This links back to the standard homepage. But when I click it on my iTouch, the browser tries to load the main page, and then redirects back to the mobile page. This makes sense, because the main page has the iPhone redirect, but is there any way to overcome this (short of having a second, non-redirecting standard homepage)?
I’m not a big fan of the iPhone redirect paradigm. Since the iPhone
has arguably a better browser than most PCs, it just doesn’t make
sense to pretend that it needs coddling. If you have a seriously Flash-
heavy site, or something like that, then I could see using the
automated redirect, but what I prefer instead is offering the user the
choice, rather than making it for them. If you really feel you need
it, create two separate sites (as separate Freeway documents). Add a
link to the top of each page in the normal site that says “view this
page in our mobile site” and an apposite one for the mobile site that
reads “view this page in our desktop site” or something like that.
Walter
On Aug 8, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Robert Terhune wrote:
but is there any way to overcome this (short of having a second,
non-redirecting standard homepage)?
Yes, that’s true. I’m only tinkering with it right now. But for my situation, it would be nice to have it working correctly (and, unfortunately, I do not have the coding skills to do it manually).
