- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 05:50:30 +1000
- To: Mounir Lamouri <mounir@lamouri.fr>
- Cc: WHAT Working Group Mailing List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
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.
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