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Javascript/HTML mobile browser emulator


Looking for an html/js solution/package to display a website preview on my site, where the previewed site is rendered as if it was viewed by a mobile browser.

Currently I am using a solution based on an iFrame, however this does not allow me to set the user agent to a mobile one, so it is not an optimal solution.

Suggestions appreciated.

EDIT: I don't think I made myself clear enough, I want to embed such an emulator on my webpage, I am not looking for a browser extension or for a desktop software solution.


Solution

  • OK, Just to update and specify what I eventually did:

    What I needed to do is embed some kind of iframe which emulates webpages as if they were viewed from a mobile device. The biggest problem was to set the user agent to be a mobile one (which you cannot do with an iframe). What I ended up doing is set up another php-based server running a glype proxy. The Glype proxy allows to emulate different user agents, I hard coded it to be an android browser user agent.

    I then inserted an iframe pointing to my other proxy server, and it works nice.

    I still had a problem with some websites which implement and iframebuster script, and I had to manage that.

    Ilan