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[Tomasz Wolniewicz <twoln AT umk.pl>]

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W dniu 2015-10-19 o 14:27, Stefan Winter pisze:
> Hi,
>
>> What I would be against, would be embedding the entire CAT GUI as a
>> frame, for this I do not see any arguments.
>
> Well, we have this wonderful OS detection on our UI now - which
> institutions may want to make use of.
>
>
> Your approach with UserAPI calls per-device is absolutely the better
> approach, but then you either present users a list of devices with no
> auto-detection, or have to implement OS detection yourself.
Well. The UserAPI class already has a detectOS public method, all that
would be needed would be an addition of the API call, which is just a
few lines of code. Still I cannot say that this is already done in
1.1.1, never came to my mind, unfortunately.
Tomasz

>
>
> In your specific case, the latter is not a big deal because you wrote
> the CAT code for OS detection anyway ;-) but for an average admin, the
> lazy/tempting/"better" approach is to just point users in the CAT's
> general direction and let the CAT do the legwork.
>
> I take Alan's point though that I should ask the same questions on other
> channels to catch at least a significant subset of those who are not on
> cat-users.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Winter
>
>>
>> Tomasz
>>
>>>
>>> At least ensure that ALL federations in CAT have had time to make
>>> announcements of this (i can tell you that many orgs are not on this
>>> mailing list! ) so that sites have a chance to respond/feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>> alan
>>
>
>

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