Btw, it's extremely sad, maybe in the year to come we have a chance to change that, looking at PhoneGap, a "pseudo-standard" for client-side device recognition being demoed at the W3C booth at MWC and projects based on actual W3C Standards like DeviceMap or OpenDDR aren't: https://www.w3.org/2013/MWC/#demos
Any of you even there this year? On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Reza, > > Thanks a lot for your interest. > I'm afraid, without the actual device or a reliable emulator, I cannot > tell, neither for Firefox OS nor ChromeOS, although there should be a few > notebooks out there already with that OS by now. > > As mentioned in my OpenDDR presentations like this one > http://www.slideshare.net/keilw/openddr OpenDDR considers 3 aspects: > > - Physical Device > - OS > - Browser > > Thus while the browser may remain Chrome or Firefox or even still say > something like "Mozilla" for most, the physical device and/or OS will vary > in each of those cases. > > Given the client API for C# and Java is so far modeled closely after > OpenDDR, that also applies to DeviceMap for most parts. > > Regards, > Werner > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Reza Naghibi <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Werner, can you re explain the implications of this, for my understanding? >> >> So you are saying that this os can encompass both devices, tablets, and >> desktops? They will support popular browsers like chrome and firefox? Will >> these browsers expose a device name in the UA? What will change? >> >> Can you maybe give me some examples of what we could see in the wild? >> >> In dclass, I have started to go down the road where os detection is a >> separate index than device detection. >> >> --- >> Sent from Blackberry Bold 9900 >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Werner Keil <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:13:07 >> To: <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Test Data >> >> Another indicator, why Web-based Mobile OS are likely to become stronger >> very soon, especially in what used to be "Feature Phones" and their >> replacements by cheaper devices than full-scale Android or Apple >> devices[?] >> >> So we're looking at potentially *a very large number*, if Firefox or >> Chrome >> OS are spread across the world... >> >> http://readwrite.com/2013/02/25/mozillas-firefox-os-smartphones-unveiled-at-mobile-world-congress >> >> Werner >> >> >
