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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How does one make a full overdrive site into a mobile site via the URL?
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From a user perspective:
By entering a diffent URL (see on some of the previous pages what the URLs are).
Fom the developers' perspective:
By having a sniffer figure out what kind of device is being used and redirecting the browser(*) without the user's input, though these days, most web developers have the decency to ask you if you'd like to see the mobile site or the full site. Overdrive never gave you a choice.
(*) They redirect you to either different pages or, these days, more often to the same pages but using a different CSS.
A more modern approach is reflowable or fluid design, where you don't have different versions but, instead, just take for granted that the same site will have a different layout on different screens. I think that's what the new Overdrive site is built like, which, while nice in theory, is attrocious looking on smaller screens the way they built it.