#16796: isMobile() should be added to request objects
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Reporter: anonymous | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: HTTP handling
Version: 1.3 | Severity: Normal
Resolution: | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Someday/Maybe | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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Comment (by lukeplant):
I'm going to mark as WONTFIX, because:
1. there is no obviously correct consensus on how to do the user-agent
sniffing, or even consensus on whether this is the right approach at all,
depending on what you are going to do with 'is_mobile'. AFAICS,
'is_mobile' takes a set of abilities that devices may have, each of which
has to be represented by a large spectrum, and reduces them all to a
single boolean, which is of dubious value for many uses.
2. Unlike with other things that are in contrib, there is no great problem
caused by different solutions to this problem, so there is no reason for
this to go in core/contrib.
3. As soon as we added this functionality, we would be taking on the
burden of maintaining a database of user agent strings for 'mobiles' (and
defining what that means).
This should remain as a snippet, or 3rd party solution.
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