I think the iPad is 50/50. How would you go about omitting iPad from mobile detection?

There is no "standard" of what should be mobile or not... what is http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/ suggesting? However maybe we can introduce another variable like isTablet? So for instance the iPad will give: isMobile=true and isTablet=true, the question then will be how do we define tablet ? something with a A5 like format?

The iPad's not mobile:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-ipads-not-mobile-2010-11

:)

I don’t have an enormous amount of experience writing web sites for mobile, iPad and desktop, but for the sites I have done, iPad has been much closer to desktop than mobile.

I kind of wish the user-agent string included the max-width string you can interogate via media queries. iPhone and iPad generally need specific design considerations because they’re a fixed canvas, unlike desktop browsers. Generally, the iPad’s larger canvas works just fine for desktop-designed sites.