-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Radu, Reza,
"a service ... to gather data in order to improve the server-side detection accuracy" I'm gathering such data thru my site (and have a more extended version is ready for roll-our), but I do not think accuracy in that sense is such a big issue, the two other issues raised, I think are the real 'biggies' : 1) "tighter integration between the server-side module and the client-side one" *very* interesting ! Reza's answers to his own question I think expose the main issue : they run across the stack (btw : noticed how "full stack" is the new black ?) Back in the day when Cougar/HTML 3.2 was hot and DreamWeaver was the coolest kid on the block, most of 'us' knew about HTTP headers or status codes and a FIN in TCP meant something to us too. Today the layers of our stack are much more segregated not so much because things got more complex technically speaking but because Marketing Man moved in. The "responsive design" 'crowd', with the marvelous intuitive, easy-to-use etc tools available have been cloistered and divorced from the stack. Our tool runs right across the whole stack, so I think the challenge here is to 'reconnect' the "web devs"/designers/app-makers with the stack without exposing them to the actual underlying 'technicalities'. This obviously leads to : "simpler api, fallback code, flexible loading" and for the page designer (and his tool-maker) point-click/drag stuff. A tall order, but like Reza I think : 'deliverable'. 2) "frequent updates to the datasource files" To quote Reza's understatement : "this part has me a bit concerned" too. But I should be incorporating Reza's latest revision of the loader code in the .Net version and running tests etc instead of...well, this ;-) Test results to follow ASAP. esjr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRzSA3AAoJEOxywXcFLKYceTwH/23a03getKqhzd194lAEqula 81CYLs5lwVgJe94hgUNFAyseqmMXe7Hnag3XxRXoOSWSgBdMpzWRN02UOlEmpCcw JV1Rf0fLztSj1C9dAzJg4/j2/A4wtgOM7XGHBQvuTMLjfcHlRhlu6BzEtYQxbQkY CVNOdQ2/3eMe2Sp42Yej6+ifKf3XFBJog1rsGtDuirmkHT0YxYg7msBkAaV1vOCP WNwZZVzSigVASOHHj4bc9MQOd7DWzyZ5TD6Ov4Cf//fKukfHyVfuR2yfLaDWHXmE 81VW4NBRYYyISvoI85ay9f11HfZYfY7zspAZIl6WnQl23iyS1spjnldFqXzf6+k= =i+7m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
