On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/07/12/ie10-user-agent-string-update.aspx > > IE10 has introduced the Touch token to the UA string, which overlaps in > intent with our Tablet token. > > Dao suggests it would be nice to get cross-browser consistency here. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773355 > > This makes some sense to me. "Touch" is more the matter of interest than > the form factor. If we do switch, we should do it before we ship native > Fennec on tablets. > > Anyone want to argue for or against?
My pedantic self would like to argue that Touch isn't a synonym of Tablet. As a matter of fact, smartphones would fit the bill to have Touch in their UA, if you read what the MS blog says strictly. I however do agree that there is a need to distinguish whether the user agent is touch-capable or not, not only for tablets, but also for the increasing number of desktop PCs that come with touch screens. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
