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Introduction
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This package contains heurestics (rules-of-thumbs) for dealing with mobile phones in web systems.

The package is a part of mFabrik `Web and Mobile <http://webandmobile.mfabrik.com>`_ solutions package
to build multichannel content management with Python.
  
Features
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* Extracting user agent information from HTTP headers

* Detecting high-end and low-end mobile phones, Javascript and CSS support: simple.py

* Formatting phone number links (iPhone / WTAI): simple.py

* Creating Google Maps / waypoint links: poi.py 

* Creating downloadable contact cards: vcard.py

* Generating correct HTTP headers and XHTML document type declaration: contenttype.py

* Detecting web crawlers in mobile mode (Googlebot): contenttype.py

* Downloadable video format detection RTSP / HTTP: video.py

We suggest you to take a look inside the Python source code and read the comments.

Dependencies
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* `vObject <http://vobject.skyhouseconsulting.com/>`_ library is used. 

If mobile.heurestic Python egg is installed via dependency aware installer (easy_install) 
the dependencies are automatically installed.

Source code and issue tracking
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The project is hosted at `Google Code project repository <http://code.google.com/p/plonegomobile>`_.

Commercial support and development
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This package is licenced under open source GPL 2 license.

`Commercial CMS and mobile development support options <http://webandmobile.mfabrik.com/services>`_
are available from mFabrik's Web and Mobile product site.

Our top class Python developers are ready to help you with 
any software development needs.
  
Author
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`mFabrik Research Oy <mailto:info@mfabrik.com>`_ - Python and Plone professionals for hire.

* `mFabrik Web & Mobile - multichannel CMS made easy <http://webandmobile.mfabrik.com>`_ 

* `mFabrik web site <http://mfabrik.com>`_ 

* `mFabrik mobile site <http://mfabrik.mobi>`_ 

* `Blog <http://blog.mfabrik.com>`_
