Hi everyone, I have been looking through the posts and have read a lot about mobile content with Freeway and I am aware of the iPhone/iPad redirect action but what I was wondering was, is there still no action that would ‘sniff’ for other mobile browsers?
I myself use a blackberry (OS6) and it does not see flash and I have a client who’s website contains 2 pages with flash.
I am designing 2 iPhone friendly pages to offer as an alternative and plan to use the redirect action. However my understanding is that this will not work for other mobile devices?
If this is the case, my contingency plan would be to place a link on each of the flash pages which will take the user to the mobile-friendly ones. This seems a bit cumbersome but if there is no other way (?) I probably have no choice.
This is actually good practice anyway, along with the inverse – “view
full site” as a link back to the normal site, so people with the
latest mobile browsers can see the entire site.
Walter
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:18 AM, MarkSmith wrote:
If this is the case, my contingency plan would be to place a link on
each of the flash pages which will take the user to the mobile-
friendly ones. This seems a bit cumbersome but if there is no other
way (?) I probably have no choice.
Thanks Walt, having thought about this, I agree with you and it’s not such a big deal.
One further question: the swf movie on the homepage comes up blank on mobile browsers but is that what is happening? By that I mean is the content just ‘not there’ or does the browser replace with a ‘blank’ image/panel in some way?
I ask this because I was wondering about ‘hiding’ a “to see this page on your mobile etc etc…” message underneath the flash movie so it would only be seen by mobiles.
You should try it. I don’t really know if whatever is “under” the
movie would appear or not. There used to be a feature in the Flash
Extras Action where it would allow you to put a placeholder image into
the movie to appear when there was no Flash, like a fallback. I wonder
where that feature went?
Walter
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:36 AM, MarkSmith wrote:
Thanks Walt, having thought about this, I agree with you and it’s
not such a big deal.
One further question: the swf movie on the homepage comes up blank
on mobile browsers but is that what is happening? By that I mean is
the content just ‘not there’ or does the browser replace with a
‘blank’ image/panel in some way?
I ask this because I was wondering about ‘hiding’ a “to see this
page on your mobile etc etc…” message underneath the flash movie so
it would only be seen by mobiles.
With Protaculous on your page, click once on your Flash movie and note its ID (whatever is in the Title field in the left-most tab of the Inspector).
Now draw an image box the same size as your Flash movie, and note its ID as well.
In the top Function Body button in Protaculous, add this (substitute the placeholder values for the real names you noted above):
One of those ought to work. Make sure your image is exactly the same size as the movie, and you should see this image only if the browser doesn’t support Flash. All browsers support the object tag, but not all browsers can load the content you put inside it. This image should be covered up by the flash movie in browsers that support Flash content, and revealed in the rest.
David
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I have tried my original idea of just hiding the content under the flash movie and it does seem to work however it shows through for a second or 2 if there is a delay in the flash content loading.
David: I then tried the JS option (number 2 worked best for me) and although it worked fine, the same thing happened (at least in Firefox it did) It didn’t seem to behave any differently to my option above. This would be fine if viewing on a mobile but I can’t help feeling it looks a bit messy if not?
I think I may just put a permanent link on the 2 pages to point to the mobile content.