Best way to detect mobile device and redirect

Question

Here's my snippet for detecting a mobile display based on the screen size. You can force the site to stay in desktop-mode by adding a forceDesktop param to the URL.

I`m new to jquery so if you have suggestions, please comment.

Credits go to brandonjp: How can I get query string values in JavaScript?

        <script>
            $.urlParam = function(name, url) {
                if (!url) {
                    url = window.location.href;
                }
                var results = new RegExp('[\\?&]' + name + '=([^&#]*)').exec(url);
                if (!results) { 
                    return undefined;
                }
                return results[1] || undefined;
            }
            window.onload = function() {
                var forceDesktop = $.urlParam('forceDesktop');
                if (!forceDesktop) {
                    if ( $(window).width() < 639) {   
                        var url = "http://m.mysite.com/";    
                        $(location).attr('href',url);
                    }
                }
            };
        </script>

Maurita

I know this post is more than 2 years old but it should really be on codereview instead of here... – Kimi

Answer 1

Actually, I believe that it is important to detect mobile from window width.

So here is the way that I am using.

function detectmob() {
   if(window.innerWidth <= 800 || window.innerHeight <= 600) {
     return true;
   } else {
     return false;
   }
}

if (detectmob()){
top.location.href="mobile";
}

Urine

I think you need OR, not AND, because many phone screens are 720 or 800px tall while being only 480px wide. – Silicone

Answer 2

why not this?

if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {
    window.location = "http://m.mysite.tld/"; 
}

Breastplate

Answer 3

best way is

if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent) )     
{
   var url = "http://m.mysite.com/";    
   $(location).attr('href',url);

}

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Englishman

Yes its also valid one location.replace("http://m.mysite.com/") But if He wants to use url for other purpose then he can cache in var. – Englishman

Answer 4

If you're going to use some form of browser-sniffing rather than feature detection via something like Modernizr, your best bet is to grab some script from http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ rather than use home-grown / incomplete scripts pasted here and there.

Allot