![]() Lots of mobile browsers have iPhone in their UA strings to work around browser detects that obsessed web developers have set up. None of the reports I've read so far show how they detect browsers. "Mobile browser detection is really hard. He thinks that the iPhone doesn't really have the claimed 50% share of the mobile web: After all, Nokia only sells more smartphones than BlackBerry and Apple combined, so there's no reason to mention it." "No "mobile web development" specialist ever mentions Nokia ever. Would you agree with those sentiments, even if we're back in 2000 and IE6 is really the best browser we have? Or would you reply that our sites should work as well as they can in all browsers through the use of web standards, progressive enhancement, and all the rest of the best practices we've been preaching for the past ten years?Ĭertainly he's making some of the same points that were made in comments to my earlier post about Flash: Therefore we will develop websites exclusively for IE6. The other browsers are way worse than IE6, and developing for them is a pain something we're not interested in and are a bit afraid of.Ĥ. (Note: this was actually true back in 2000. Oh? Suppose, he suggests, one proposed the following:ġ. And then we'll have the real mobile web that wasn't made by us and doesn't give a shit about web standards and best practices." ![]() If we don't pay attention, we'll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. The long, detailed and faintly angry blogpost doesn't pull any punches:
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