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What is API: Application programming interface
Thursday, 23 April 2020
What is an API API stands for Application programming interface. To explain this concept I like to use a metaphor. Imagine going to your local bakery. At the counter you ask for the things that you want to buy. The guy at the counter will pack these items for you. You only get the specific
- Published in API, Company information, Device detection, geolocation, JavaScript
What is geolocation: History and use-cases
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
A brief history For already thousand of years people want to locate themselves. The Ancient Greeks used the positioning of the stars to discover their location. In 1935 Sir Robert watt developed the Radar system. During the second world war radar was used during to locate the opponent. In 1973, the USA launched the very first
- Published in geolocation, JavaScript
New: Geolocation detection API
Monday, 20 April 2020
Today we launched a new API for our platform: The IP-location API. With this Geolocation API the exact location of a user can be discovered. The API can be implemented to your website with one line of JavaScript code. When someone enters your website the user’s location, time, currency and IP information becomes available to
- Published in geolocation, JavaScript
How to (precisely) detect the device model with JS
Sunday, 09 February 2020
In 2020 we live in a more personalised world than ever before. To make web pages transform to the personal needs of the user, information about the visiter is needed. As a data scientist and web developer I struggle a lot with gathering data about the visitors on my website. One of theses struggles is
- Published in Device detection, JavaScript
JavaScript overview from A-to-Z
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Introduction The standard and most popular scripting language for the web is JavaScript. Similarly, the main part of our device detection API uses JS. Therefore, we figured is was time to give an overview of JavaScript in one of our blogpost. Thus, in this post we will describe the most import aspects of JavaScript. We
- Published in JavaScript
Device detection for iPhone and iPad with JavaScript
Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Not possible to detect the type of iOS device with Javascript. Currently it is not possible for web developers to detect the type of iOS device with Javascript. In contrast to Android devices, Apple does not let you see whether visitors use an old iPhone 3G or the newest iPhone XS. However, if you want
- Published in Device detection, JavaScript