Ipad browser testing

We have just got our hands on an old Ipad 1 which we bought from John at John and Ginger. So we can now fully test new site builds on Safari for Ipad and Safari for Iphone. The safari for Ipad give pretty much an exact copy of a site as Firefox and Google chrome, but do not expect your site to work the same on an iphone.

We have even cleaned it up and bought a new leather case of Amazon for it. Who needs an Ipad2 when the first one does the job anyway.

How to identify the browser in PHP

Bastian Allgeier has posted a great article on how to identify what browser is being used to view your website. The code is written in PHP and set the HTML class to the browser being used.

The implementation involves downloading the PHP code from Bastian’s website and adding two line of code to your PHP script. Then adding CSS accordingly.

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