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by preston8430
Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:42 pm
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Tablet Detection
Replies: 26
Views: 93171

Re: Tablet Detection

I guess I should start by saying that we are not currently using the API for "capability" detection, we are merely trying to analyze our web traffic to view our customer behavior characteristics based on the type of device/browser they are using. I am aware that these fields are non-deterministic, b...
by preston8430
Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:55 am
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Tablet Detection
Replies: 26
Views: 93171

Re: Tablet Detection

One other thing I should mention, when I did analysis using only the .IsDesktop method (instead of .IsDesktopHeavyDutyAnalysis), the results skewed the mobile population way out of proportion, it appeared that identifying something as mobile was preferred by the API, and for our purposes, ultimately...
by preston8430
Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:48 am
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Tablet Detection
Replies: 26
Views: 93171

Re: Tablet Detection

I am currently using the .NET API to parse our list of known UA strings. This code is located inside an SSIS package, and the method Browsers_ProcessInputRow(...) runs once for each UA string. The PreExecute() method is run when we begin the processing of the rows. Basically, we are attempting to ca...
by preston8430
Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:57 am
Forum: Device Detection Issues
Topic: Tablet Detection
Replies: 26
Views: 93171

Tablet Detection

Is there a better way to determine if a device is a tablet? I use the IsDesktopHeavyDutyAnalysis() method first to get the main IsMobile, IsDesktop, IsSmartTV flags, then I am trying to use GetCapabilities() to help determine if the device is a tablet. My issue is that "is_tablet" is sparsely popula...