I'd like to use Firebug to check out the markup for a mobile site m.somesite.com The problem is that when visiting the site from the desktop, the site automatically redirects to the desktop somesite.com
Is there a way to tell a site that you're mobile device (though you're really a desktop) in order to avoid this redirect and let my desktop see m.somesite.com ?
These article might help you: http://mobiforge.mobi/testing/story/testing-mobile-web-sites-using-firefox?dm_switcher=true (may be it is outdated in details, but idea is the same)
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At my company we have an internet-facing SharePoint 2010 site. We will be creating a subsite that will serve as a mobile site (different design, smaller subset of information). When a user hits our homepage from a mobile device, I would like them to be redirected to a page where they can select a link to either view the mobile site, or the full desktop site.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe standard SharePoint mobile detection needs to be enabled for this. I think I can redirect the mobile users to my "choice" page pretty easily with an HttpModule, so that they don't hit the default SP mobile page. But the problem I'm having is that if they choose to go to the full desktop site, if I try to redirect them there in the module, they're just going back to the default SP mobile page.
My question is, is it possible to achieve this in SharePoint? It seems to me that the default mobile detection would be difficult to override the way I want it to happen. Do mobile users only have access to the mobile subsite in this scenario? If anyone needs more information from me, just let me know, I'll provide whatever I can.
(Also, I know it would be better to do a responsive layout, but that decision is out of my hands)
We created an "ismobile" cookie for the session after the redirect. This allows us to ignore the redirect if the user has this cookie. In means that they have already been redirected once this session so don't do it again if they hit the desktop page.
We started using this so that the "Show full website" link didn't just bounce the user back to the mobile page
Quick question. I've created a number of iframe apps for Facebook which work fine on PC, Mac etc. But not on mobile devices. The icon just doesn't show when you visit the page. I assumed this was because I'd not defined a mobile site URL. I've now done this, but I'm still not seeing an icon. Am I missing the point?
Thanks.
what icon do you mean? if you defined your mobile site url correctly, your app shows up in the search field. if you're talking about a page tab, it's not possible at all. the mobile native apps don't support this. but you can always link to your mobile site url in newsfeed!
On my client's Fanpage, a third party app is running for a contest. How can I make this FB contest page available on mobile? I read the answer here:
http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/a/10833366/461119
also
Facebook SDK : Page Tab App returns not found in mobile Facebook App
I do not understand it clearly.
Is the query parameter ?ref-ts which we have to add at the end of URL?
What does it mean by "It helps in the browser but not the app itself."?
Will it help to see the App on mobile and click on it to go to the contest page on FB?
Also, I found this answer:
Works as advertised! Thank you. I was getting 404, but simply adding
ref=ts in my redirect URLs (I force users to use my app as a page tab)
fixed it! – Guillaume Boudreau
under the first link above but what is forcing users to use app as a page tab?
How can I set App as a page tab?
little bit confused.
I searched the web vigorously but did not get any clear explanation.
My observations about this issue:
Seems like it's an ANDROID issue, Work OK on iPhone's
Work with the link redirection services like Bit.ly (where the bit.ly link included the ref=ts)
I sent an email to Facebook for ANDROID developers.
Hi,
my iPhone's user colleagues can open links to page tab app with ref=ts
parameters but on Android we can't ;-(
The only way we've been able to do it is when the link to the app is
under a bit.ly redirection link
The problem is only when the links are open through the Facebook App.
Thanks
Let us know
Max*
You can access to your app using the next link https://apps.facebook.com/YOUR-APP-ID
In this way, you can access from a desktop or a mobile with no problem.
Does anyone know of a way to disable the mobile browser detection and redirect feature of Facebook via querystring parameters?
For example, if I go to www.facebook.com/CraigslistGenie in a mobile browser, I get redirected to http://m.facebook.com/CraigslistGenie. I would like the user to stay on the www version of the page.
you either change the user-agent to achieve that or you add ?m2w to the link i.e. http://www.facebook.com/CraigslistGenie/?m2w does NOT redirect (tested on Android) while http://www.facebook.com/CraigslistGenie does redirect to http://m.facebook.com/CraigslistGenie
For reference see here and here.
The first answer is correct, however if you want it to work on an Android phone (and keep working when you click on links within the site) you need to go into the browser settings (after you've gone to the http://facebook.com?m2w) and check the "Desktop version" setting.
This will prevent the browser from constantly trying to send you to either the mobile version of the site or the FB app.
Method given by Yahia is good. Adding ?m2w to link means converting mobile to web view.
Or,
Change settings of mobile browser i.e. User Agent. Both Steel and Dolphin browsers allow you to change that setting however. Both are free in the market. (I am not doing any marketing of browsers.)
Some of you may have noticed that, despite changing the User-Agent in the browser, you are still sent to a mobile website anyway. Check this patches given.
Check this huge discussion about tricks used for hiding mobile browser.
I'm building a mobile version of my site for smart-phones
(iPhone/Blackberry/Android/WebOS)
and I want to redirect to the mobile version from my main site whenever the user agent is of one of the kinds listed above (my mobile site is on a different url than my Desktop site).
My mobile version is more like a WebApp and does not contain the same content as the Desktop site.
After reading This Post by Google I understand that the Googlebot expects smartphones to display the Desktop version of the site (Googlebot-Mobile is not used for smartphones)
I'm afraid that if I redirect to the mobile version for smartphones, Google will give me penalty for cloaking, How can I avoid this?
I know that including a link from the main site to the mobile version and vice versa helps a lot.
Any other advice/best practices on how to be google friendly when creating mobile versions of the site for smartphones?
From the article:
For Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile, it does not matter what the URL structure is as long as it returns exactly what a user sees too.
The key thing is you must be consistent in the content you give to the bot and the one you serve to the user.
Another interesting excerpt from the article:
For now, we expect smartphones to handle desktop experience content so there is no real need for mobile-specific effort from webmasters. However, for many websites it may still make sense for the content to be formatted differently for smartphones, and the decision to do so should be based on how you can best serve your users.
You can also serve a different page/content/styling based on the UA string, as stated in the article:
If you serve all types of content from www.example.com, i.e. serving desktop-optimized content or mobile-optimized content from the same URL depending on the User-agent, this will also lead to correct crawling by Googlebot and Googlebot-Mobile. This is not considered cloaking by Google.
I think it all boils down how different the content/styling is. If it's only slightly different, I would probably go with the same url serving both. If it's dramatically different, I would use a different url for smartphones.
Hope this helps!
Updating this with current information. Google now crawls with a smartphone Googlebot-Mobile user agent. See: Google blog post
Google's SEO PDF explains how to avoid cloaking penalties. Specifically, see Page 27. See: SEO PDF
The gist is, the content you serve a desktop user can be different from the content you serve a mobile user, as long as Googlebot is always served the same content you serve to any desktop user, and Googlebot-Mobile is always served the same content you serve to any mobile user. To abide by this, it seems to me you should not configure your site to serve mobile content based on finding "Googlebot-Mobile" in the user agent. The bot will supply a typical smartphone user agent string as part of it's own user agent--that's the part to rely on, or else if a new device comes out that you do not yet account for, you'll serve desktop content to it, but mobile content to Googlebot-Mobile impersonating that device.
You could use subdomain for your mobile site and redirect google mobile bot there together with smartphones