Hi Bertrand, I think that good device detection is strongly related to good device analytics: if device detection matters for a web site owner, than also device analytics does.
For this reason I would suggest to "reward" those web site owners willing to integrating the data-collection javascript, allowing them to access device-oriented analytics of their web site. Without any effective "reward" I think adoption would be not relevant. I'm pretty sure you were not thinking about this when you wrote "analytics-like javascript"... were you? :) -Stefano On 03/feb/2012, at 18.28, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > One idea that we discussed with Philip is creating some simple > javascript code to collect device data when people visit websites that > would accept adding that code to their pages. > > The code would collect some data about the device (a la css media > queries), and make one request to a server of ours, which can store > that data along with selected request headers. > > Although this might not supply all the details about the device, it > would at least make us aware of its existence, and provide some basic > device data. > > Privacy must be taken care of in this case, but it's no worse than > with Google analytics and similar services. > > WDYT? > -Bertrand
