Re: [questionnaire] Addendum to Mobile Web Best Practices ready for publication?

On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:12 AM, public-bpwg@w3.org wrote:

> what is the reasoning for making the distinction between
> properties that are detectable server side (e.g. UA)
> and those that are device profile based (e.g. memory size) and are  
> not being detected at all?

I may get "flamed" for this
and
devices/browsers lie to servers all the time
so
IMHO User-Agent is a totally unreliable metric
for making decisions about what to serve

jeffs

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