Mission: Impossible – iPad mini detection for HTML5 – Breaking the Mobile Web

As you may know, the iPad mini is a new 7.9″ variant of the iPad tablet and one of the biggest questions out there today is how to detect it using server-side or client-side techniques. I have bad news for you: it seems impossible. Two days ago, I’ve tweeted about the first detected problem: “It is confirmed that the iPad Mini User Agent is the same as the iPad 2“. I’ve received literally hundreds

[korinchan]

ブラウザからiPad miniの判別ができない、dpiも取れないと。うええ。