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Comment by vgurgov | Hacker News Reader

Thats interesting(I spend couple days making this mobile version). Why? I dont have iPad, but tested it on iphone and adroid. Can you please check if same happens when you go to youtube or it has some custom version for iPad?

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Are you redirecting based on user-agent string? The iPad reports Mobile Safari in its user-agent:

  Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10

You might want to white-list user-agents containing 'iPad' from the redirect.

Thanks, I know how to do it technically. I am just not sure how other video sites do it with iPad. Custom mobile version or redirect to general site?

Worth going to your local apple store and testing with their display models. ;)

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