This morning I was reading an important reminder from Jeremy Keith. It’s about Progressive Enhancement works and how the server plays an important role in the enhancement step of the process. Even with better tools and abilities for client side work, we still need a server to produce some content and send it to the browser: These […]
Native apps on mobile devices account for an increasing amount of web traffic. Facebook being the most popular “in app browser”. Sometimes these apps provide some interesting information in the user-agent. Facebook does it, and Instagram does it. Here are some examples of how a user agent string may look like for Instagram: iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 […]
The latest Facebook app for iPhone adds some interesting metadata to the user agent sting. The user agent in the web view part of the app, that is (when you follow a link in a status message). Picture above shows the user agent and more (captured here). The extra stuff is: FBAN = Application Name […]