IPhone/iPad detection

I was looking for suggestions on what to use for iPhone/iPad/mobil device detection for a site. My client asked to build an alternative html5 site to their current Flash site that gets hit if people are on an iPhone or iPad. Any suggestions? Someone I talked to previously suggested wurfl. Any comments on this would be greatly appreciated too!
Thanks a lot!

iPad/iPhones use Safari web browser so your typical mobile site might not be what they need or want to see.
IMO a better solution would be ditch the Flash site and rebuild it in HTML. Smart Phones can see HTML sites just fine.
http://webdesign.about.com/od/mobile/a/detect-mobile-devices.htm
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