Re: State of the art in browser capability detection
Re: State of the art in browser capability detection
- Subject: Re: State of the art in browser capability detection
- From: Ray Kiddy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:51:12 -0700
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:20:15 +0200
"Markus Stoll, junidas GmbH" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> where possible, I switched to feature detection using
>
> http://modernizr.com
>
> This depends on a small javascript library running on your page.
>
> Markus
>
Apparently someone already thought this was a good library. I knew it
was in wonder somewhere. Of course, everything is, somewhere.
$ find wonder -name modernizr\*
wonder/Examples/Misc/ERWebSocketExample/WebServerResources/js/modernizr-1.7.js
wonder/Examples/Misc/ERWebSocketExample/WebServerResources/js/modernizr-1.7.min.js
- ray
> > Am 15.10.2014 um 05:30 schrieb Paul Hoa
dley <email@hidden>:
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On 15 Oct 2014, at 11:25 am, David Holt <email@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> We're beginning to tackle just this problem. One helpful site is
> >> http://www.whatismybrowser.com and has an API available, but I'm
> >> not sure that it does anything different than you could do in WO.
> >> We use it in a support context to tell people whether they are
> >> running a browser considered out of date and gives instructions
> >> for how to update, turn on JavaScript etc. I've realized since,
> >> though that it is quite laptop/desktop centric since a quick
> >> download will not be the solution to upgrade a browser on mobile
> >> devices.
> >
> > Thanks I'll take a look at that. Google suggests there is at least
> > one Java-based browser sniffing project in what seems like active
> > development, which might be useful:
> >
> > https://github.com/HaraldWalker/user-agent-utils
> >
> > Presumably you could write a more modern implementation of
> > ERXBrowser with something like that.
> >
> >> Another problem we're encountering is the huge variety in
> >> connection speed differences between "modern" devices. Also, since
> >> people are now using USB cel sticks or their mobile devices as
> >> hotspots for laptops, the variety is unpredictable and vast. We
> >> can no longer make the assumptions about connection speed that we
> >> could have even a couple of years ago.
> >>
> >> Sorry for no solution, but maybe our experience can add fuel to
> >> the fire :)
> >
> > Definitely. I really just wanted to know what other people were
> > doing. I fully understand the philosophical objection to browser
> > sniffing, and the theoretical superiority of client-side capability
> > detection and responsive design, but sometimes you have to solve
> > actual problems in the real world on a limited budget. In this
> > case, all I want to know is whether the user is probably running a
> > "mobile" browser at the time of their first request.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Paul Hoadley
> > http://logicsquad.net/
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