On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Dao <d...@design-noir.de> wrote: > On 13.11.2012 12:24, jim.math...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:49:14 AM UTC-6, Jonas Sicking wrote: >>> >>> Note that putting "touch" in the UA is somewhat different than >>> traditional UA sniffing. It's actually capability testing which is >>> what we are encouraging people to do. Using HTTP-headers is the way >>> you do server-side capability testing, comparable to using JS and >>> API-detection to do client-side capability testing. >> >> >> Isn't this what we want to avoid? For the user with a laptop that >> supports touch they are going to get thrown into touch centric (mobile) >> interfaces on web sites. I have had this happen on the tablets I test >> with thanks to the touch interfaces > > This is a misguided simile. Once upon a time, the touch interfaces were > actually only present on mobile devices. This is never going to be the case > for the Touch token. The Touch token won't be present on mobile devices; > it's unclear to me why you think anyone would treat it like the touch > interfaces.
If indeed we can't send the token on mobile devices (because it would cause them to send us the somewhat-larger-screen-size tablet UI?) then I agree with you. My proposal only makes sense if we can send the "touch" token for mobile as well. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
