Device Detection

Is it possible to determine browser capabilities, like javascript availability, AJAX, type of CSS
based on the http request (user-agent...)
Is DeviceAtlas able to give me this information?
Is it possible without execting anything in the client-side, just from the server-side?
Thx
Ignacio

Hello, I'm developing a mobile web app that has both a frontend app & a backend admin control panel (like Joomla).

I want to restrict the ability to only access the admin control panel on a desktop PC rather than on a mobile handset.

Without using DeviceAtlas (not because it's not good, my company can't afford it - therefore i need to write my own code :( ), I know it is possible to detect the user is accessing a web app using certain mobile handsets devices rather than on a PC -> using the useragent and strings like "ipod, iphone, android etc.."

Hi there,

This is my last resort, posting a thread in the forums because of lacking response from DeviceAtlas support.
Im a paying customers of DeviceAtlas in level "Premium" and have now over a long time tried over and over write to you via:

1. Your support contact web page.
2. Your email address for technical questions.

Is the support not in operation or is there any other problem?
Could you please contact me ASAP, you have my contact details from my account name i assume!

Hi,
I am using device atlas for device detection, while doing that I am using IE6 along with google tool bar, the device is detected as mobile and when the google tool bar is uninstalled from the browser it is detecting as desktop.

I am using:

Api.getProperty(ConstantAccessor.getData(), UA, "isBrowser");

Is there any solution out there on this.

Thanks,
Amitava

I'm working on a service which will take in a device TAC/IMEI and return device properties.
I saw a few topics(from last year) that mentioned plans of adding TAC support but looking at the API it's not clear if the support exists or not. Can someone tell me if this can be done and if not, are you still planing on adding this feature? Thanks

The site I built is at http://www.duffresearch.com.

Switcher mode is set to browser detection, and the mobile version was coming up automatically for mobile devices, but now it's not. You can still click the link to it http://www.duffresearch.com/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

How can I go about figuring out and fixing whatever is wrong?

Thanks in advance for any advice or assistance.

Hey all.

Does anyone know how often device properties in Device Atlas are updated? As an example, we're looking for the scriptSupport property availability for the Apple iPhone.

However, there is no data available for the iPhone and it's scriptSupport property yet. I've just taken a look at the WURFL data for the iPhone, and according to it, Javascript (AJAX in particular) is supported.

<group id="ajax">
	<capability name="ajax_xhr_type" value="standard"/>
	<capability name="ajax_support_getelementbyid" value="true"/>

i use $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] for detecting mobile device model .but only some browsers are returns device name and model number like uc web and nokia in built browser.opera mini does not returns the device name and model no.then i use $_SERVER['HTTP_X_OPERAMINI_PHONE_UA']. this returns the value UNTRUSTED/1.0.how to resolve this value

Hello,

could anyone please explain if it is really worth using these days HandheldFriendly meta tag by default for all mobiles and even new ones.

I see that it is not used by so many mobile sites and even by mobiforge.mobi, so why not to use it? or it is still worth including.

Thank you.