Comments on: Sprint Starts Hiding User Agents (and Breaking the Mobile Web), Too http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: TM Forum Community - Blogs http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119271 TM Forum Community - Blogs Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:51:31 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119271 [...] to build an IMS monster, and the project doesn’t get dragged down in the general chaos. This isn’t encouraging though.Vodafone, meanwhile, was knocked back from buying the rest of Vodacom by the South African [...] [...] to build an IMS monster, and the project doesn’t get dragged down in the general chaos. This isn’t encouraging though.Vodafone, meanwhile, was knocked back from buying the rest of Vodacom by the South African [...]

]]> By: raddedas http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119240 raddedas Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:10:19 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119240 Hi Ed, Given that passing the real User-Agent through to the server - even in a secondary header - is utterly trivial to code, especially compared to the effort required to rehash any kind of page markup, why was it not in v1? That would have been 10 minutes well spent I think, and waiting until V5.7 seems a bit late. How is it possible to work in the mobile industry, specifically in a company that has helped define the mobile browser, and yet be so completely ignorant of what the rest of the industry is doing and what they require to do that? Unless of course Sprint specifically asked you to leave it out... Hi Ed,

Given that passing the real User-Agent through to the server - even in a secondary header - is utterly trivial to code, especially compared to the effort required to rehash any kind of page markup, why was it not in v1? That would have been 10 minutes well spent I think, and waiting until V5.7 seems a bit late.

How is it possible to work in the mobile industry, specifically in a company that has helped define the mobile browser, and yet be so completely ignorant of what the rest of the industry is doing and what they require to do that?

Unless of course Sprint specifically asked you to leave it out…

]]> By: Carlo Longino http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119236 Carlo Longino Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:18:27 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119236 Thanks for the update, Ed. Thanks for the update, Ed.

]]> By: Ed Moore http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119234 Ed Moore Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:02:27 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2008/03/17/sprint-starts-hiding-user-agents-and-breaking-the-mobile-web-too/#comment-119234 Neither Sprint or the OpenWeb team wish to make life hard for mobile site developers and we are accelerating steps to remove this issue from the Open Internet deployment. Please bear with us for a short while as we get the exclusion lists up to strength and introduce OpenWeb 5.7 which automates mobile web site detection and lets through the phone user agent. Many thanks. Neither Sprint or the OpenWeb team wish to make life hard for mobile site developers and we are accelerating steps to remove this issue from the Open Internet deployment. Please bear with us for a short while as we get the exclusion lists up to strength and introduce OpenWeb 5.7 which automates mobile web site detection and lets through the phone user agent. Many thanks.

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