> > Hi All, > > > > For Firefox OS, we are getting requests from partners to add tokens > > to > > the UA string which identify the hardware device on which Firefox > > OS > > is running. > > > > During the UA discussions for Firefox for Android we explicitly > decided not > to do this (after much debate and discussions of the merits). Why > should > Firefox OS be different?
As we've seen, sites can be very specific in how they sniff the UA. While I can't say with certainty, differences in the UA between devices has the potential to break mobile Web sites/apps for specific devices. Another consideration is that we really want our UA to be as stable as possible so that the introduction of new platform support (say, Windows phone) will not require a new evangelism effort. (Yes, through our evangelism efforts we are promoting feature detection instead of UA sniffing but, as Jonas noted, many sites use UA sniffing and this is the low bar to cross for sites to support Firefox for Android and B2G.) Lawrence _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
