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Comment on RESS, Server-Side Feature-Detection and the Evolution of Responsive Web Design by Jesse Beach

Jesse Beach — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:24:15 +0000

Great thoughts as we’re looking at how Drupal will evolve to support responsive content presentation and now, as you’ve planted the bug in my head, response content entry.

Comment on RESS, Server-Side Feature-Detection and the Evolution of Responsive Web Design by James Rosewell

James Rosewell — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:55:24 +0000

A very insightful and sensible blog post. Thank you.

In some use cases the properties (or capabilities) a developer cares about don’t just relate to the browser, they also relate to the physical device and the operating system. For example; video, analytics or app stores.

BTW 51Degrees.mobi obtains many of the browser features using a human facilitated set of client side feature detection web pages.

Comment on Introducing ua-parser-php: Slicing & Dicing User Agent Strings by Mike Bond

Mike Bond — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:54:29 +0000

So far its working like a champ. I integrated it into EngineAPI and have been having the library people hit it with all their mobile devices and its working fine.

I sent you an email it modifications to the code to fix some problems I was seeing.

Comment on Book Review: “Head First Mobile Web” by Jason Grigsby

Jason Grigsby — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:14:17 +0000

Thanks Dave! It means a lot to us to hear you liked it and found it useful.

Comment on Introducing ua-parser-php: Slicing & Dicing User Agent Strings by Dave Olsen

Dave Olsen — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:45:32 +0000

I just updated this project will better support for devices and a few boolean attributes like “isMobile” and “isTablet.” Not sure the latter will be terribly accurate/useful but I figured I’d throw it in just in case. Let me know if you run into questions or concerns during testing.

Comment on Introducing ua-parser-php: Slicing & Dicing User Agent Strings by Mike Bond

Mike Bond — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:46 +0000

Excellent.

I’ve not been happy with the way we’ve been detecting in EngineAPI. I’ll test with this likely add it into EngineAPI for the upcoming 3.0 release.

Thanks.

Comment on Introducing Detector: Combining Browser- & Feature-Detection for Your Web App by Bryan Rieger

Bryan Rieger — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:05:12 +0000

Regarding “a sampling and/or confidence metrics that could be used to re-test browsers?” we (yiibu) simply count the number of times a profile appears and take the one that is most likely to be correct. It’s by no-means perfect, but it does leverage the perceived ‘wisdom of crowds’.

Also, the idea of a ‘central repository’ of profiles is really intriguing. My database chops simply aren’t up to the task, but would really love to help out making this possible. In many ways it would allow us to crowd source an open device dB with relevant, tested device properties – instead of simply relying on commercial and/or community contributed (often ill-defined and open to interpretation) data.

Comment on Creating CSS3 Snowflakes by Dave Olsen

Dave Olsen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:45:53 +0000

@anthony-

i should add a note about that. it’d be very simple to add that to the that gets built to be the snowflake. for our purposes the really simple look matched the video but it would be nice to have something that looked a little bit more like a traditional snowflake thanks for the suggestion.

Comment on Creating CSS3 Snowflakes by Anthony Bosio

Anthony Bosio — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:30:19 +0000

Might find a way to use the unicode snowflake in this.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2744/index.htm

Comment on Mobile Strategy Is Dead, Long Live Content Strategy by Carnival Of The Mobilists COM #255 Is Live; Wrapping Up A Great Mobile Year | mobilegroove

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:59:31 +0000

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