Not wanting to change the way you work but the whole responsive design movement and the mobile first approach are king for web development these days. User agen

Not wanting to change the way you work but the whole responsive design movement and the mobile first approach are king for web development these days. User agent sniffing was always a bad practice and thats why Chrome and friends still need to refer to themselves as Mozilla/* If you code using responsive design, not only your site will work on mobile devices and desktop but it will also work in future aspect ratios. Lots of people were doing pixel perfect design on mobile sites for iPhone but when that iPhone 5 came in with the new resolution all those designs broke. Blackberry Passport device uses an rare 1440x1440 resolution, if you do pixel based alignment or fixed layouts you will be in trouble in all those marginal devices that together amount to a large percentage. Specially when dealing with Android devices. So if you begin from the start using bootstrap the way it is meant to be used which is by following a responsive design paradigm then you can forgot the clunky hack that is "display desktop site". Instead com arguing for a agent sniffing solution, we should all be coding for resolution and depth independence. Your main issue about bootstrap and escaping mobile version is antagonist with the way it should be used. There should not be a mobile web and a desktop web. There is only one web and media queries are your friend. If you know all this I am talking about and that would be pretty normal since I spoke nothing but common knowledge, then you know that user agent sniffing and mobile version of sites are all legacy stuff. Coding with modern practices is much easier and less trivia filled than it used to be.