-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think the fact that these operating systems appear to re-open the web, that is if/when various 'real' browsers of a hopefully more 'fragmented' browser landscape (http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/mozilla-ceo-kovacs-pleads-for-fragmentation-says-fate-of-our-mobile-world-cant-depend-on-just-two-companies/) will come to them, is a very good thing indeed ! But, Reza raises an interesting question from the point of view of device recognition : apart from OS, as with desktop browsers, these browsers (and their makers), seeing as they are no longer tied to a specific device or even types of devices, may forgo including device identifiers in their user-agent string; they may not even 'know' what device or type of device they are installed on.
Although the navigator object already includes quite a lot of information for creating 'responsive' HTML, I do not think that client-side probing or (re-)writing of HTML is useful or feasible in many cases. It would really be nice if those browsers would 'import' device-identifiers in their user-agent string on installation. Let's hope Marketing Man understands that measuring the penetration of his Shiny New Thingie in 'the wild', via it's unique footprint in actual web-logs is *really* important ;-) As I very likely will soon have regular access to more logs of sites aimed at the mobile market, I'm sure I'll see their footprints soon enough, along with all the others, which I'll add to the test-data sets in due course. Regards, esjr PS : I've been delving further into the UAProf thing and I sure was *very* wrong about 1 thing : Apple does do UAProfs...or at least did one : the iPhone (tada.wav !) http://iphonemms.apple.com/iphone/uaprof-2MB.rdf I also have over 3,000 UAProfs cleanly parsed (in an RDBMS) and linked to OpenDDR/DMap devices ! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRLPdLAAoJEOxywXcFLKYc1tgIALN9WJr10Qqlno4l2LEwUVSf ALwpBAFdZhMcRCkRFetZFCqyKr/4s6zd5AaviJ6EE9xXaLMbmgYU6nfsVQvxWj+E inS4HgPc6KAmNNXHkwPHe2RnEYCKxR6aKZ7HduOjc2onk13FRRiXF/aUTvVrWSkM RQay0LvHQkJtzUWrwzJaOqY7BUDXnzlrZiIbFuOpPEA+DZdSXr1Ln0RILj/zNkMa mH1tIxjzxJcfqqeQKSGuRgkTcUlQqT2JmrMom8oLns1kjhUhuGjF6nzrzUGuWqMB 5HhkztgT8Ie3TjnpGXHtxTS2Am6XATfaTPVCN95oO36ScOOtRn6OYo4pB5qVHNI= =p7Tz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
