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

Original Message:
> On 24 Sep 2014 20:40, "James Graham" <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 24/09/14 02:54, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> >
> > > In the meantime, I'd like to add a property to window.navigator to
> > > enable websites to get the same information from there as is already
> > > available in the UA string. That would at least help with the parsing
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > And if means that we could more quickly move the device model out of
> > > the UA string, then it also helps with the UA-string keying thing.
> >
> > It's not entirely clear this won't just leave us with the device string
> > in two places, and unable to remove either of them. Do we have any
> > evidence that the sites using UA detection will all change their code in
> > relatively short order, or become unimportant enough that we are able to
> > break them?
> 
> Why don't we provide a better structure and not just a random string. For
> example: deviceID, browserID, renderingEngineVersion ... Not sure what
> else
> would be useful to group actions that the developer needs to take.
> Haven't
> looked in detail.

On top of that, firmware version would be helpful, since most HWA/WebGL
bugs are caused by driver bugs that directly relate to the firmware
version.

Sangwhan

Received on Wednesday, 8 October 2014 03:33:34 UTC