user agents for mobile phones - where???

naiivitar

Joined: 2005-11-09
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Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 15:16

have to take care of wap-support base but can't find user agents for newest alcatel phone models. anybody here knows, where I can find some info? found wurfl xml, but it contains only older phone models user agents and stuff

thank you

nivekiam

Joined: 2002-12-10
Posts: 16504

Posted: Mon, 2005-11-14 00:48

You could setup a little PHP script to display the user-agent string on a site you have control on and browse to that site with the phone(s) in question.
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gernot.hueller

Joined: 2006-04-26
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Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 10:55

how is wap support doing? I would love to have a working interface for wap mobile phones but I dont speak php - i know quite some stuff about wap, though.
Firstly, I dont think you should use the user-agent to detect capabilities, rather the accept-type header.

If you want to adapt the ui to the device eg by screen size, I think the best way is to support the wurfl: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

as menalto is a rather monolithic server installation, I would also recommend to add an update mechanism to import the latest wurfl data, perhaps as a maintenance task to be performed by admins over time. The interval in which new cell phones are released is probably shortter than the interval in which you update an existing gallery installation.

aside from that, I would not restrain to wap, as most camera cell phones support xhtml, which is probably more flexible to design, develop and test in usual browsers! IMO, the target device is a cell phone with camera, age <2yrs, and I guess tehy all do xhtml.

sorry for speaking wise and not really doing the work - I just saw the post here and thought information is missing, also I dont know the current development status.

valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509

Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 15:41

g2 is everything but monolithic. it's modular. say there would be a module for wap support. then you could update this module independently of the rest.

anyway, as mindless points out in the other thread you just posted, you can vote for the feature at the link he suggested.

naiivitar Joined: 2005-11-09 Posts: 1	Posted: Wed, 2005-11-09 15:16
	have to take care of wap-support base but can't find user agents for newest alcatel phone models. anybody here knows, where I can find some info? found wurfl xml, but it contains only older phone models user agents and stuff thank you
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nivekiam Joined: 2002-12-10 Posts: 16504	Posted: Mon, 2005-11-14 00:48
	You could setup a little PHP script to display the user-agent string on a site you have control on and browse to that site with the phone(s) in question. ____________________________________________ Like Gallery? Like the support? Donate now!!! See G2 live here

gernot.hueller Joined: 2006-04-26 Posts: 10	Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 10:55
	how is wap support doing? I would love to have a working interface for wap mobile phones but I dont speak php - i know quite some stuff about wap, though. Firstly, I dont think you should use the user-agent to detect capabilities, rather the accept-type header. If you want to adapt the ui to the device eg by screen size, I think the best way is to support the wurfl: http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ as menalto is a rather monolithic server installation, I would also recommend to add an update mechanism to import the latest wurfl data, perhaps as a maintenance task to be performed by admins over time. The interval in which new cell phones are released is probably shortter than the interval in which you update an existing gallery installation. aside from that, I would not restrain to wap, as most camera cell phones support xhtml, which is probably more flexible to design, develop and test in usual browsers! IMO, the target device is a cell phone with camera, age <2yrs, and I guess tehy all do xhtml. sorry for speaking wise and not really doing the work - I just saw the post here and thought information is missing, also I dont know the current development status.

valiant Joined: 2003-01-04 Posts: 32509	Posted: Sat, 2006-10-07 15:41
	g2 is everything but monolithic. it's modular. say there would be a module for wap support. then you could update this module independently of the rest. anyway, as mindless points out in the other thread you just posted, you can vote for the feature at the link he suggested.

user agents for mobile phones - where???

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