Archive for September, 2010

Updated: Disambiguate between ‘PDA’ and ‘Update’

September 27, 2010 at 11:15 pm · Filed under Code Updates

This afternoon, we got an alert from Ilia with a suggested fix. Ilia pointed out that the algorithm which detects for a device using “PDA” in its user agent string will also be triggered when it encounters the word “update” (or “autoupdate”). This issue is encountered with some clients which have Adobe software installed. Here is an example of the offending useragent:

“Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.5.21022; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; Creative AutoUpdate v1.40.01)”

So I made an update to the DetectMobileQuick() method in all code libraries: PHP, JavaScript, Java, and .NET.

QA Note: I was able to do a casual test with the PHP and JavaScript codes and they appear to be working. If you see an error in the Java or .NET versions, please let me know. (And of course if you see ANY errors or the need for any tweaks, please send me a note!)

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Test your device!

September 26, 2010 at 4:26 pm · Filed under General

We published a device detection page on the Hand Interactive web site. It doesn’t test all of the API methods at this time, just some of them. A web page to provide results for all of the API methods is coming soon!

Follow this link: www.hand-interactive.com/detect/

If a mobile device is detected, it’ll automatically show you the mobile version of the page. Otherwise, you’ll get the desktop version.

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