Tomorrow we’re rolling out a major overhaul of our browser and operating system (platform) detection. The main thrust of this release is to make our results more consistent across the board. If you’re making use of this feature then there’s a few changes you should know about.
All Apple devices will now report as iOS, not a mixture of iOS and iPhone OS, with Mobile Safari as the browser, rather than just ‘Safari’, to distinguish it from its desktop brother.
All versions of everything have had their 4th most significant version digits removed. For example, what was a Blackberry 9300, RIM OS 6.0.0.612 will now report as a BlackBerry 9300, RIM OS 6.0.0. This will consolidate analytics in a sane way for tracking Platform and Browser versions across differing devices.
We’ve maintained the various flavors of the Symbian renaming hijinx as per Wikipedia and added Nokia Belle.
On the browser front we’ve massively improved our coverage of the less mainstream browsers (Fennec, Bolt, Phantom, Ovi) and added more patterns for new releases of popular browsers as well (UC Browser, various Webkit flavors, Opera Mobile and Series 40 devices).
We’re considering adding a browser family tag as well, for Webkit, Gecko etc… If you’re interested in this feature please let us know in the comments below.
Happy Detecting.
