Wondering if I am doing something wrong or if there is another solution altogether.
Here is some testing code I just wrote out:
HttpBrowserCapabilitiesBase browser = this.Context.Request.Browser;
var width = browser.ScreenPixelsWidth;
var height = browser.ScreenPixelsHeight;
var maxheight = browser.MaximumRenderedPageSize;
bool mobile = browser.IsMobileDevice;
string pageUrl = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.ToString();
if(width < 960)
{
...
}
I am testing on my development machine which of course is a desktop. My screen resolution is 1920 x 1200. However, my width and height variables are getting set to 640 and 480 respectively. I have tested this in IE and Chrome so far.
Some of these values aren't determined dynamically (like width/height). These values were originally developed when there was a handful of devices and they could build a server-side database with all the known dimensions of these devices. If you need to
know the dimensions at runtime use JavaScript in the browser.
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Browsing device properties via HttpBrowserCapabiltiesBase are way off.
Aug 11, 2012 12:25 AM|MagianCreative|LINK
Wondering if I am doing something wrong or if there is another solution altogether.
Here is some testing code I just wrote out:
HttpBrowserCapabilitiesBase browser = this.Context.Request.Browser; var width = browser.ScreenPixelsWidth; var height = browser.ScreenPixelsHeight; var maxheight = browser.MaximumRenderedPageSize; bool mobile = browser.IsMobileDevice; string pageUrl = Request.Url.AbsolutePath.ToString(); if(width < 960) { ... }I am testing on my development machine which of course is a desktop. My screen resolution is 1920 x 1200. However, my width and height variables are getting set to 640 and 480 respectively. I have tested this in IE and Chrome so far.
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Re: Browsing device properties via HttpBrowserCapabiltiesBase are way off.
Aug 11, 2012 09:21 AM|BrockAllen|LINK
Some of these values aren't determined dynamically (like width/height). These values were originally developed when there was a handful of devices and they could build a server-side database with all the known dimensions of these devices. If you need to know the dimensions at runtime use JavaScript in the browser.
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Re: Browsing device properties via HttpBrowserCapabiltiesBase are way off.
Aug 20, 2012 10:29 AM|roopeshreddy|LINK
Hi,
HttpBrowserCapabilities class won't provide you accurate browser details!!!
You may need to build your own - http://roopeshreddy.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/detect-requesting-device-type-and-redirect-in-asp-net/
Otherwise, you may have to use CSS3 Media queries - http://www.css3.info/preview/media-queries/
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/19/how-to-use-css3-media-queries-to-create-a-mobile-version-of-your-website/
Hope it helps u...
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