[This post is by Bart Sears, who manages the Android Browser team.Tim Bray]
This bill describes whatever issues when browsing websites with ambulatory variants using large-form-factor Android devices. This bill will be of interest both to OEMs (with recommendations on how to set the User Agent string for the device) and to scheme place designers/administrators (with recommendations on how to end to wage either a ambulatory version, a concealment version, or a large-form-factor touch figure edition of the site).
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With the advent of Android devices with super modify factors, weve been evaluating the best artefact for scheme sites to wage a UI pertinent for the various Android devices that are now acquirable to consumers. We hit conventional feedback that consumers using larger-form-factor devices ofttimes prefer the flooded or concealment edition of the place over the ambulatory version. Most websites providing ambulatory versions key soured of the protocol User-Agent brick field to watch whether to wage the flooded place or a ambulatory version.
While large-form-factor Android devices could use User Agent Spoofing to wage a concealment User Agent in the protocol header, we propose against this. There haw be place customizations necessary for Android devices (for example changes in the artefact that mouseover is used) and the place would be unable to wage these customizations if it receives a spoofed User Agent that did not inform that this was an Android device.
Currently, Android devices wage the following (in constituent to standard info) in the User-Agent: "Android", a edition number, a figure name, a limited build, Webkit edition info, and "Mobile". For example, Froyo on a Nexus One has the following User Agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; Nexus One Build/FRG83) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, same Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1
The "Mobile" string in the User Agent indicates that this figure would prefer a edition of the website optimized for Mobile (small modify factor devices), if available.
We propose that manufactures of large-form-factor devices (where the user haw prefer the standard scheme place over a ambulatory optimized version) remove "Mobile" from the User Agent (and ready the rest of the User Agent as currently implemented). Web sites crapper then key soured "Mobile" in the User Agent to end on which UI edition to present to the device. So a super concealment figure running Froyo would hit a User Agent similar to:
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; en-us; figure Build/FRG83) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, same Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/533.1
Where "device" would be replaced with the actual study of the newborn device. Sites crapper continue to use Android in the User Agent to optimize for Android limited features and crapper also key soured of Mobile to watch which UI to present.
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