1008889 - state.gov sends desktop site to Firefox OS and Firefox on Android

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. So does the Firefox on Android browser and even the Android stock browser.

The JavaScript snippet below shows how the sniffing works:


http://www.state.gov/js/cookies.js


function CheckMobile(mobile_file){
	var agent = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
	var regex = /iP(hone|od|ad)|blackberry|avantgo|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|opera m(ob|in)i|pixi|plucker|pocket|psp|smartphone|symbian|treo|vodafone|wap|windows (ce|phone)|xiino|nok(6|i)/i;
	if (typeof agent != "undefined" && agent.search(regex) != -1) {
		var urlParam = GetUrlParam("goMobile");
		if(urlParam) {
			WriteCookie("goMobile","0",12);
                }
		else {
			WriteCookie("testCookie","works",1);
			if(ReadCookie("testCookie")) {
				// cookies definitely work, so look at mobile cookie
				if(!ReadCookie("goMobile")) {
					//alert('mobile device.  no mobile cookie and cookies work. go to m.state.gov');
                			location.href="http://m.state.gov/"+mobile_file;
				}
			}
		}
        }
}

Comment 1

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Good place to start:

Janice Clark - Director, Website Management for Office of Website Management
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/janice-clark/6/a1a/15

Trying twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamOpenWeb/status/472061078269353984

Comment 2

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Response: @AdamOpenWeb thanks. We're looking into it.

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Response: "@AdamOpenWeb should be fixed. Let me know! Thx"

Tested on Firefox Android and FFOS, we get the mobile site now.