On: No user agent detection for the iPad Mini

[nerd_in_rage]

It's good because it's not something that should be done.

Ask yourself why you need to detect the user agent.

[ronancremin → nerd_in_rage]

Why? Because it can help improve the user experience (page payload, image sizes etc). There's a good reason why Google, Facebook, Netflix, eBay, Yahoo, BBC, Amazon etc. do it. It's also part of RFC 1945 (HTTP 1.0) and RFC 2616 (RFC 1.1). Not exactly a hack -- it's designed into the HTTP protocol since 1996.

[chris_wot → nerd_in_rage]

To allow folks to read legible text. To ensure that elements aren't that small you tap on the wrong thing. To provide a reasonable user experience to your audience.

How exactly would you resolve the problem?