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On 12/11/12 17:25, Kevin Brosnan wrote:
> On mobile Chrome leaks the device name in the UA this is the current
> method of hardware feature detection on the Android stock browser as
> well.

OK. So given that we don't want to do that (we've rejected it twice 
now), if this is the even-worse alternative, than perhaps we do need to 
provide something in the UA which answers this common "is it supported?" 
question...

Gerv