1008885 - scotiabank.com sends desktop site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Attachment: comparison screenshot

This site intends to send mobile browsers to a mobile site, but doesn't know that Firefox OS devices are smartphones. Hence the browser on Firefox OS phones get desktop content instead of mobile.

This JavaScript is responsible for the browser detection:


		  if ((navigator.userAgent.match(/Mobile Safari|Android|iPhone|iPod|BB10|BlackBerry/i))) {
			 location.replace("http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/0,0,2,00.html");
		  }

Comment 1

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

This is a Canadian bank, right? Seems they only have a mobile site for Canadian customers or something - the "gls" in some URLs seems to be "global site" and that "mobile browser" sniffing takes you back to the Canadian section..

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The site for 

* Peru http://www.scotiabank.com.pe/Scotiabank
* Brazil http://www.br.scotiabank.com/
etc.

the list of national sites are in 
http://www.scotiabank.com/gls/js/GLSdata-en.js

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Mike mentioned that he has a friend who's starting at Scotiabank in a few weeks that should be able to help with a fix.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

I will close this as FIXED.
The main scotiabank Web site is a kind of router for all sub-local sites. This router is perfectly compatible with Firefox on Smartphones.

Most of the sites which are behind this router with different domain names are not sending a content which adjust to small screens on Firefox OS.