-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 DeviceMap has several advantages : apart from the plain $ cost, there is also
a) cost of resources : - - DeviceMap's footprint is minimal - - DeviceMap does not depend on elaborate caching - - DeviceMap has *no* dependencies b) maintenance cost : - - DeviceMap's code-base is microscopic - - regex based systems all contain hard-coded regex patterns.'Radical' new user-agents (like IE 11, following Mozilla) require resource and code updates - - regex based systems all depend on building 'chains' of parsers or code-paths to follow. 'Special' new devices/agents (NetFlix, I read plans a dressed-down WebKit based user-agent, for example) require new code. I imagine DeviceMap securely embedded or plugged in web-facing systems or as dedicated API, depending only on resource updates (XML but also smaller faster formats like protobuf -- my favorite -- or MessagePack). I had better get busy with the promised test data and results. On to the 1st release... esjr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJShNNPAAoJEOxywXcFLKYcoJkIAMKG6B+qRcpuIfP/8GNeoWcR 196ZSvE/O8JVW3j1KZLV/6HTLMU0ee5ygZhwuezCJdawXhVSsV6puz2rHhUHRnlX ktcq/5vCYjXJZLyZKna3njTlFZpxr8r9zk5w0yzqiV67b0jBvc7SbxmeeBVf/bSb r7cXAUljAyCsWLrBWxaKYK7ssRIAMiHgVKVEzj+FqZH9boe1hdKvOyX2xveCl59w RtNFnF5P7V14GtczlOdaL3jNLKVTkRKogkZwBsjSbFogtR8sHnbZ8wSM4gpPOV2Q YJR+y/Pqgg1ks+XluHteo7S1JVs0IFK/bvZF7NO1MlIeB8RfW0uMa0/cMrjFreE= =AvZE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
