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

On 24 Sep 2014 20:40, "James Graham" <james@hoppipolla.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 24/09/14 02:54, Jonas Sicking wrote:
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> > 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.

Silvia.