I was having trouble detecting mobile device capabilities correctly in ASP.NET 2.0.
Then, I ran across this project:
Basically, it is an xml file (.browser file) containing definitions for lots of mobile device browsers. The problem is this file is about 350k lines long. Since I’m checking parameters on every page request, I’m worried that using such a large file could slow down server responses.
What do you think?
MDBF is great and has no issues after applciation start up (when the file gets parsed and cached). As long as you don’t have resource issues on your server which mean that the file will need to be regularly reloaded you’ll be fine.
However! MDBF is no longer supported and won’t be updated further. Consider using http://51degrees.codeplex.com/ instead.