I worked around it using this:
{{is_mobile=request.user_agent().is_mobile and not
request.user_agent().is_tablet}}
in layout.html
Naveed
From: Anthony
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 08.45
To: web2py@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [web2py] Prevent mobile rendering on iPad/Tablets
Any future development really needs to be flexible in this regard: iPads are
not iPhones (and likewise for other device families). OTOH, iPads are not
desktops either: they have a touch interface. A good responsive design
framework should handle this properly, and not as a hack.
Note, Skeleton does actually retain the desktop layout on iPads (and any device
at least 768 CSS pixels wide) -- it doesn't drop to the single-column layout
until the device falls below 768px (Bootstrap does the same). So, it's probably
not necessary to edit the skeleton.css file to accommodate iPads.
On the other hand, the mobile menu could use improvement.
request.user_agent().is_mobile is True even for tablets like the iPad, but we
don't necessarily want the mobile menu on tablets. It would be helpful if
request.user_agent() included additional attributes, such as is_tablet (or
maybe some basic size categories, like small, medium, large). Server-side user
agent parsing can get tricky, though, so ultimately it's probably best to
handle as much of the responsive stuff on the client side (via CSS media
queries and JS) as possible. Another approach with the menu would be to include
both the desktop and the mobile menus in the HTML, each with its own class.
Then use CSS media queries to selectively show one and hide the other depending
on the screen size.
Anthony
