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Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by jonasvp »

Wow, talk about synchronicity... I put up our site doing the exact same thing last night! Design-wise you're definitely ahead, however. :-)

Our version is at http://www.browser-details.com. When you sign up you get your own subdomain - or you define a CNAME under your own domain [premium]. You can upload your logo, define a list of recipients, and your clients can send the browser details directly to one of those recipients/departments.

We still need to change the color scheme (I wanted to launch at the end of the week, so it's straight Bootstrap for now) and finish the translation to German. Also: Premium version!

Feel free to be a beta tester! Also: all the best to the OP, great idea! ;-)

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by dsr_ »

Let me make a suggestion: for reporting, return a URL with a set of word codes rather than numbers and letters.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/dog_walrus_banana_door

If you figure out a set of 1000 short words that are not too close to each other and easy to pronounce, four of them gives you a trillion possible combinations. If you window it so that the first word is always the same on a given day and keep a record of that list, you can differentiate a billion combinations in a day and have a good check that the information was gathered recently (or else is a thousand or more days old.) http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/l/ will get you common words, as a start.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by q_revert »

works nicely for me in firefox/opera, but doesn't do too well in anything else... although I'd doubt you'd need to worry about them too much, still, it's always nice to see apps like this fail gracefully, if you had a 'this particular browser isn't supported' type message rather than 'something went wrong'

http://imgur.com/a/chkc2

broken useragents..

konqueror: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.6; Linux) KHTML/4.6.5 (like Gecko) Fedora/4.6.5-8.fc14

seamonkey: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110429 Fedora/2.0.14-1.fc14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14

dillo: dillo/0.8.6 epiphany: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-ie) AppleWebKit/534.16+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/534.16+ Epiphany/2.30.6

midori: Midori/0.2 (X11; Linux; U; en-ie) WebKit/534.7+

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by rampr »

prateekdayal wrote: post #35
nemetroid wrote: post #32

If I visit with an odd User Agent I get a server error. https://aboutmybrowser.com/47523742 is an example where I used User Agent Switcher in Firefox with the UA string Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.5; FreeBSD) KHTML/4.5.4 (like Gecko)

Thanks for reporting this. Only when we started working on this we realized how complex user agent string parsing is. We will be improving it with all the feedback so you can expect things to be better in a day or so.

Offtopic though, You might want to read how user agent strings have evolved - http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by joncalhoun »

ashastry wrote: post #79
vog wrote: post #74

For me, this site is currently quite useless. It merely shows: "We're sorry, but something went wrong." Is it a bug in the browser recognition, or is the site simply down due to its exposure to HN?

It currently shows this page if it cant parse the user agent. Can you post the url with the error? It would help us debug.

https://aboutmybrowser.com/2605932122

This is an error page and I am requesting the page using Chrome (18.0.1025123) on Android ICS (4.0.4 on a Galaxy Nexus).

Something to note - if i check the "request desktop site" setting in chrome it seems to work, but that may be because chrome pretends to be running on linux in that case.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by matan_a »

It would be great to combine some public data source about browsers together with what you have like, for example, adding information from WURFL:

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/help_doc.php

Mind their (new) license tho if you plan to use them specifically.

Seems like a great fit so the user does not have to perform their own cross-referencing.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by NLips »

w0utert wrote: post #23
anonymoushn wrote: post #20

It looks like it detects the resolution of the primary display. I'm not sure if there's a way to pick the "right" display, though. Screen Width 1440 Screen Height 900 Browser Width 2560 Browser Height 1368

I'm not really sure if it's a glitch in the tool or that the resolution is (deliberately?) misreported by my browser, but on my iPad 3 it reports 1024x768. A nice extension to this would be to add some kind of database of popular mobile devices, so you can detect the device type from the reported attributes. I think you coud extract some interesting device usage statistics out of it.

That's the size reported by Safari so that pages scale correctly for a "retina" screen.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by deno »

prateekdayal wrote: post #2

This is our weekend hack. Would love your feedback. The app is primarily for people doing customer support to understand if their users are using supported browsers and right plugins (like flash etc). Info link - https://aboutmybrowser.com/?nr (no-redirect since we want it to be zero click for your users)

You might consider using (or consulting) Closure Library for UA sniffing. It’s pretty decent and Google actively maintains it.

demo: https://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goo...

docs: https://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/closure_goog...

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