Tablet Detection, Console Detection, API Update & New Features for Sites
Published August 15, 2010 by Richard Uren
Todays update, out in a few hours, contains support for Tablets and Consoles accessible via our new API call : detectall.
Attention people using API Kits : There is a change to the behaviour of the detect API call which may impact you. Back in the pre iPad days there was an assumption that the detect call was the way to tell if something was a mobile, or not. Detect only returned handset information, so if it found something then that something was always mobile. Then iPads arrived, which complicated things. In the main redirecting iPads to a mobile site is not desired which meant inspecting detection results and excluding iPads from redirection. So here’s the change, from today detect will only detect devices classed as mobile. Performing a detect on an iPad will return Not Found, just like a normal browser.
To detect Mobiles, Consoles and Tablets in the one request use the new detectall API call and inspect the ‘class’. Class will be Unknown, Mobile, Console or Tablet. As we add more types of device into our database we’ll expand Class.
Sites gets isConsole and isTablet tests as well.
Thats all for todays update. As always if you have any problems then drop a note to hello@handsetdetection.com
If you’re using the PHP or Java API Kits then I recommend updating to the latest kit to take advantage of the automatic load balancing features, plus the new detectall call for Consoles & Tablets.
Stop Press : This release also includes a swanky new footer and a few bug fixes : most notably a problem preventing quota emails being sent.
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