On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Emanuel Stone wrote:
Walter you are a VERY smart man! That is exactly what’s going on!
My daughter let me use her Samsung mini tablet and I loaded my website on
it and the redirect worked like a charm.
I did research on the Kindle Fire’s OS and it uses an augmented version of
Android, same with the Nook.
I still don’t nor understand why the redirect does not work on Windows
Phones??? My family has the Nokia line of phones and when I go to my
website on those devices the redirect does not work, why is that?
I’m really thinking about changing my initial index.html page into a
‘splash page’ that welcomes the customer and gives them 3 viewing options
via links. One for desktop, one for tablet, and one for cell phone.
I would then design my website accordingly for each of these links. Do you
think this is a good approach?
I think this has a strong chance of causing any search engine mojo you have accumulated to plummet off a cliff. I think you need to investigate responsive design, maybe with the Backdraft template, and see what you can make with that. Then you have a single page for all devices, and it reacts to the screen size by either scaling or re-arranging the content to fit. Otherwise, you may be punished for duplicate content by the search engines, or just have your visitors go elsewhere.
When you say that the Windows phone devices are not redirecting, which scheme are you using? The Softpress (built-in) Action, or my Breakpoints Action? The former may be looking for specific browser signatures, while my Action uses the width of the browser directly (less fussy about browser name).
Walter
Thanks for your input.
Emanuel
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hiddenwrote:
What is the URL of the page where you are testing this? Maybe someone else
will have a different result. Remember, the Fire uses Amazon’s “Silk”
browser, which uses a distributed server/client browsing technique. When
you request a page from the internet, it is first loaded on a server at
Amazon, which rasterizes it into a simplified bitmap and then re-sends that
to the Fire. Do you have an iPad or an Android tablet to test this page
with? They use a more traditional browser, where everything is rendered
directly on the client device. My guess is that the Silk back-end isn’t
identifying the device-width to the page the same way that a normal browser
would, and so the code doesn’t execute the redirect.
Walter
On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:56 AM, Emanuel Stone wrote:
I tried using breakpoint just now. I found the resolution of the Kindle
Fire which is 1024 so I inputed 1024 into breakpoint and instructed
breakpoint to redirect to www.espn.com. I also inputed 600 for vertical
orientation and redirected to www.espn.com
I then navigated to my website via my Kindle Fire and the redirect did
not
work. Very frustrating.
Emanuel.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Caleb Grove email@hidden wrote:
The Mobile Redirect action uses user agent sniffing to determine what
device it’s working with. While this will work in most circumstances,
and
for most devices, it is not entirely dependable. My suggestion would be
to
beef up the redirect by also using the Breakpoint action to help
catch
any devices that fall through the cracks.
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