JavaScript: Changing location or stylesheet according to device or browser

Some time ago I had to create a web app that would look pretty on both, the iPhone and some Windows Mobile based device by HTC! In the end it came out to be simpler just to create another page for the WM device.

Here is a code snippet that I inserted in the header of the index page of the web app:

<script type="text/javascript"> 

 function browser(){
  var browser = navigator.userAgent;
  //alert(browser);

  //Windows Mobile
  if (browser.match("MDA_compact")|| browser.match("MSIE")) {
    window.location.href = "mda/index.html";
  }
 //iPhone & Rest
  else{
   document.write('<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />'
   +'<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="webapplogo.gif"/>'    
   +'<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />'
   +'<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />'
   +'<meta content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-width, maximum-scale=0.6667, user-scalable=no" name="viewport" />'
   +'<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'
   +'<link href="pie.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'
   +'<link href="chart.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'
   +'<link href="messages.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'
   +'<link href="news.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'
   +'<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheets/glider.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8">');   
   }
  }

 browser();

</script>

You might want to figure out first, how the target device/browser is called. Uncomment the alert(browser) line and get the name. Adapt the browser.match(“Target_browser”) and define what you want to do in that case, e.g. redirect to another page.