Windows Phone & Mobile Style

[Beremates]

Hello,

we are using vbulletin 4.2.1 and the mobile style doesn't support Windows Phones.

Is there a way to enable the mobile style for windows phone users?

thanks in advance

Guido

[Replicant]

The default mobile style in 4.x does work on Windows Phone. I use Internet explorer and UC Browser all the time to view 4.x forums with the default mobile style. Windows Phone 8 and 8.1, I can't say whether or not Windows Phone 7 works or not.

[Beremates]

I have further investigated the issue and now i'm a bit confused.

I updated my test device to Windows Phone 8.1. The internet explorer send the following user agent:

"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows Phone 8.0; Trident/6.0; IEMobile/10.0; ARM; Touch; NOKIA; Lumia 520)"

In the vbulletin code "includes/init.php" in line 554 there is the check for mobile devices:

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'windows') === false)

As you can see, the windows phones are excluded from the mobile device detection. Are you sure, that 4x are supporting Windows Phone?

Thanks in advance.

[Replicant]

I wasn't aware you were talking about auto detection. I browse to the site and select the mobile style from the dropdown list. You are correct that it doesn't autodetect. Have you tried changing the false to true?

[Wayne Luke]

In 4.2.2 and the 4.2.3 Beta the system uses this code:

if (stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'windows') === false OR preg_match('/(Windows Phone OS|htc)/i', strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])))

[Wayne Luke]

Though this will probably fail with Windows 10 Mobile as Microsoft has once again decided to change the name of the product and will probably change the user agent string to match.

[ndahiya]

I am using windows phone 8.1, and it is NOT auto-recognized as a mobile (both in IE and UC browser). Please fix.

ndahiya

[Trevor Hannant]

What version of vB4 are you running?

[ndahiya]

4.2.3 rc1 ...