Determining the clients device (PC or Mobile)

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I am returing to website development and I want my work to be as global as possible. When a web surfer arrives at my site, is there a way to determine whether he/she is surfing with a PC or mobile phone and disply the content accordingly? Or would it be better to build responsive sites using CSS?

maybe this will help out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5335237/how-to-check-if-the-request-came-from-mobile-or-computer-in-php — Modestas Stankevičius, Jun 05 '13 at 10:53

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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Take a look at the following questions, looks like there could be quite a lot of useful information in there for you:

What is the best way to detect a mobile device in jQuery?

How to detect a mobile device with JavaScript?

Auto detect mobile browser (via user-agent?)

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answered Jun 05 '13 at 10:59

Gaz Winter

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 22 '14 at 14:45

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You can use Request.UserAgent because UserAgent gets the raw user agent string of the client browser

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You could expand this a little. Its not that helpful as it is – Gaz Winter Jun 05 '13 at 11:04

Determining the clients device (PC or Mobile)

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