[whatwg] RWD Heaven: if browsers reported device capabilities in a request header

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
• Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:02 -0500
• Message-ID: <4F2DED2E.6090604@mit.edu>

On 2/4/12 2:28 PM, irakli wrote:
> Something as simple as if browsers passed along device's width/height
> information

This information can change between page load and page unload (and in 
fact, it can change between the HTTP request being sent and the HTTP 
response being received).

All passing it would do is give the server a false sense that the 
information is time-invariant static.

-Boris

Received on Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:45:02 UTC