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Gervase Markham  
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 More options Aug 6 2012, 7:30 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
From: Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:30:16 -0700
Local: Mon, Aug 6 2012 7:30 pm
Subject: Re: "Touch" or "Tablet"?
On 02/08/12 07:09, Lawrence Mandel wrote:

> My argument against is that this change continues the churn on our
> UAs, which have already been publicized [1]. Unless there is a clear
> benefit, I think we should avoid shooting ourselves in the foot by
> making changes that may impact compatibility. However, in all
> fairness, I have no data on how many sites currently recognize the
> Firefox Tablet UA.

I think that sites which are doing whole-UA detection are either deeply
specialized or seriously broken. I would hope that changing "Tablet" to
"Touch" would affect only sites which care about whether you are on a
tablet/touch device!

Gerv


 
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