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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2010-01-07 03:20 pm
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Web site test, please!

I'm putting some code into the library website that should automagically detect most, if not all, mobile devices and send them to a mobile-enabled version*, and should NOT do anything if you're not on a mobile browser.

So! I need you guys with mobile devices, as well as you guys *without* mobile devices to go to:

http://library.tcu.edu/default_test.asp

and tell me if it behaves as you'd expect. There's a link on that page that says "I prefer the regular library web site. (Click on the QR code in the footer for the mobile site.)" which should send you back to the regular site and drop a cookie that keeps your mobile device from returning to the mobile site unless you click the QR code at the bottom (the square with the black-and-white random-noise-looking pattern).** Tell me if it seems to be working OK when going back and forth.

ETA: I especially need to know from non-mobile users if you get automagically shunted to the mobile site from any of the browsers you use when accessing the above URL. :)

ETA2: IE 6 on Windows will give you a login screen twice. It's a bug that we're working on that has nothing to do with the mobile device. And is highly frustrating! YAY FIXED!

It would help if you could tell me your platform, OS, browser, and browser version when reporting results. :)

THANK YOU.




* Yeah, on iPhone at least, the only thing I have to test on, the mobile page doesn't wrap as you zoom in. This is a problem I will be fixing after I get this part taken care of. Fixed!

** I know it's probably too small to read with your QR code reader. That's another issue to tackle later. If you don't know what a QR code is, it's a 2-D bar code that encodes info, in this case the library URL.
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[personal profile] lnhammer 2010-01-07 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
FireFox v3.5.6 (on Win XP) is being given the fully graphixed version.

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[personal profile] thistleingrey 2010-01-07 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Behaves as described in your post on G1 running Android 1.6, standard bundled browser. Also works on Opera Mini 6, same OS.

"QR code" isn't a term I knew--got it by process of elimination because I failed to read your post all the way through. :) I recognize those things but had no idea what they're called....
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[personal profile] chomiji 2010-01-07 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)

Results:

FF 3.0.15 for Windows: nothing odd happened - I beheld a Web page

Exploder 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.0908004-1412 for Windows - I was challenged for a log in twice, and then presented with the same Web page.

Edited 2010-01-07 21:39 (UTC)

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, gawd, yes, the IE6 problem. We're struggling mightily with it right now as most of the lab machines are IE6. FUN HUH?

Thanks!

[identity profile] mothoc.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems to be behaving properly for me on my iPhone and my real browsers.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] forvrin.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Motorola Droid brings up Mobile Web page.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!
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[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! :D

[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Behaves as it should in Seamonkey 1.1.12, 1.1.18 and IE 7.0.1

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!

[identity profile] mscongeniality.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Behaves properly on my web-enabled dumbphone using Access Powered NetFront Browser v3.5.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, thanks! :D

(Excited because a year-old comment on the blog I ripped the code from said that it didn't work for NetFront. XD)

[identity profile] mscongeniality.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be that there's a new version of the browser since then? One that plays nicer with the rest of the intarwebs.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2010-01-07 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
That's probably it.

[identity profile] riofriotex.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Firefox 3.5.6 with Windows XP on a desktop, works fine.
IE 6.o, same platform, works fine.
BTW the web page looks real nice.