Re: [whatwg] Adding a property to navigator for getting device model

On 3 Oct 2014 04:45, "Mounir Lamouri" <mounir@lamouri.fr> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 3 Oct 2014, at 04:39, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, at 19:43, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, at 15:01, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > >> >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr
>
> > >> >> wrote:
> > >> >> > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, at 11:54, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > >> >> >> Thoughts?
> > >> >> >
> > >> >> > Do you have any data that makes you think that those websites
would stop
> > >> >> > using UA sniffing but start using navigator.deviceModel if they
had that
> > >> >> > property available?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I know that the Cordova module for exposing this information is
one of
> > >> >> the most popular Cordova modules, so that's a pretty good
indication.
> > >> >> But I don't have data directly from websites.
> > >> >
> > >> > When you were pointing that websites currently do UA sniffing is
it on
> > >> > the client side of the server side?
> > >>
> > >> I'd imagine UA sniffing happens more often on the server side, though
> > >> I suspect it varies with the reason why people do it.
> > >>
> > >> But the Cordova API is client side, so there's definitely desire to
> > >> have it there too.
> > >
> > > Isn't Cordova experience feedback a bit out of scope if usually
> > > developers do UA sniffing on the server side? It seems that such a
> > > feature would mostly benefit web sites that already entirely live on
the
> > > client side and might be more inclined to do feature detection.
> >
> > If feature detection covered all the use cases, then why would the
> > Cordova module be so popular?
>
> I would love to know actually. Silvia, do you have any insights?

I've not used it - maybe others have some insights.

Best Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:50:57 UTC