Hi Tom,

Saw the other issue about controlling which pages redirect and which ones don’t. I have a different take on this issue.

We’re using Twitter to promote news stories and we generally include links to a particular page on our desktop site. In most cases, the same content exists on our mobile site. But, if someone uses Twitter on their mobile device and they follow the link, they're redirected to the mobile homepage and have to navigate the mobile site to find the news item.

I’m wondering if it’s possible to do smarter redirection?

For instance, if someone follows a link from www.domain.com/news/top-story on their mobile device, they can be redirected to m.domain.com/news/top-story, instead of just m.domain.com.

What do you think?

Kara

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hedinfoto commented

Totally Agree. This is a big one. What if someone on their phone finds your site via google or a desktop link. www.site.com/linkfromsearch should resolve to mobile.site.com/linkfromsearch as an option. Theme switching does this but a redirect would be better for caching issues & mobile site navigation.

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hedinfoto commented

Made a work around for this. Blog post: http://www.hedindesign.com/blog/dont-use-mobile-tools-module-drupal-go-m...

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twom commented
Assigned: Unassigned » twom
Status: Active » Fixed

This redirection problem should be fixed in the current version of the module!

Hedinfoto,
I completely agree with you... Going lightweight is often the better option. Maybe Mobile Tools will go more lightweight in the future. I'll surely do my best to shrink it down as much as possible.

One of the feature that are experimental, but should differentiate mobile tools with other modules, is the integration with the permission system: you can define different permissions for mobile users.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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kiphaas7 commented

#2 javascript redirection? Have you even considered devices that can't or simply not willing to support javascript? Besides, javascript should enhance actions, not create critical actions that are not available without javascript...