Web based Mobile OS

["eberhard speer jr." <se...@ducis.net>]

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I think the fact that these operating systems appear to re-open the
web, that is if/when various 'real' browsers of a hopefully more
'fragmented' browser landscape
(http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/mozilla-ceo-kovacs-pleads-for-fragmentation-says-fate-of-our-mobile-world-cant-depend-on-just-two-companies/)
will come to them, is a very good thing indeed !
But, Reza raises an interesting question from the point of view of
device recognition : apart from OS, as with desktop browsers, these
browsers (and their makers), seeing as they are no longer tied to a
specific device or even types of devices, may forgo including device
identifiers in their user-agent string; they may not even 'know' what
device or type of device they are installed on.

Although the navigator object already includes quite a lot of
information for creating 'responsive' HTML, I do not think that
client-side probing or (re-)writing of HTML is useful or feasible in
many cases.
It would really be nice if those browsers would 'import'
device-identifiers in their user-agent string on installation.

Let's hope Marketing Man understands that measuring the penetration of
his Shiny New Thingie in 'the wild', via it's unique footprint in
actual web-logs is *really* important ;-)

As I very likely will soon have regular access to more logs of sites
aimed at the mobile market, I'm sure I'll see their footprints soon
enough, along with all the others, which I'll add to the test-data
sets in due course.

Regards,

esjr

PS : I've been delving further into the UAProf thing and I sure was
*very* wrong about 1 thing : Apple does do UAProfs...or at least did
one : the iPhone (tada.wav !)

http://iphonemms.apple.com/iphone/uaprof-2MB.rdf

I also have over 3,000 UAProfs cleanly parsed (in an RDBMS) and linked
to OpenDDR/DMap devices !
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