Re: Hello all

Thank you, I'll definitely sign up.   Sorry if this was the wrong list for
my questions.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org> wrote:

> Dear Gavin,
>
> Welcome to our group, and thanks for the introduction.
> I would like to introduce the work of this group a bit more in details. its
> home page is at http://www.w3.org/2008/MW4D/
> our focus is the use of mobile technologies in developing countries, and
> particularly in the Socio-economic development sector.
> Given your particular interest, and your technical questions, i would
> recommend you also follow the public-bpwg list (see
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-bpwg/ ). You would surely find
> there more people that could answer your technical questions, particularly
> around device detection, and device description repository.
>
> Best
> Stephane
>
> Gavin Landon a écrit :
>
>> Hello all, I've just signed up and hope to learn a few things about Mobile
>> detection via web.
>>  Background: I'm old C++ guys with 15 or so languages I've used over the
>> last 20 year.  13 of those years are in Web Development.
>>  I'm currently looking into the detection of cell phones from a website,
>> then validating speed, validating if streaming exists, screen sizes, OS
>> type, etc..
>>  I've started building something that will capture this info so I can
>> start analysing headers..
>> http://www.dp.bz <http://www.dp.bz/> - my test bed
>>  I've looked at things like MOBI and MobileMultimedia, which seems to be
>> where I'm going.  But rather not pay for something, I think I can build
>> myself pretty easily.  For starters, I just want to figure out if someone
>> comes to my site, if I can stream them videos or not.  If they can stream
>> then based on speed what type of video and what bit rate..
>>  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Gavin
>>
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Gavin