1015050 - [Tarako][V1.3][Browser] Some websites cannot recognize FxOS user agent

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[William Hsu [:whsu]]

Attachment: 2014-05-22-15-06-12.png

* Description:
  You cannot see the mobile version when you visit following website on Tarako,
  but Firefox for Android doesn't have this problem.
  - timesofindia.com
  - rediff.com
  Attach the user agent. (2014-05-22-15-06-12.png)

* Reproduction steps:
  1. Launch the browser
  2. Input the following address on the URL bar
     - timesofindia.com

* Expected result:
  Redirect to mobile version as Firefox for Android version did.

* Actual result:
  Redirect to web version

* Reproduction build: V2.0 (Buri)
 - Gaia      917174ee3812a43758bf43f7ba5f9416dcdb2ca8
 - Gecko     https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g28_v1_3t/rev/a3a14fb5ad51
 - BuildID   20140519164002
 - Version   28.1

Comment 1

[Peipei Cheng (needinfo if you need my action)]

william, I filed  Bug 1015045 - [tarako] Add UA overrides for top Indian sites to workaround this. But to completely solve these problems, we need web compatibility team's help.

Comment 2

[William Hsu [:whsu]]

Thanks Peipei!
But, I think these websites need to update WURFL[1] because we have followed the standard to define the UA.

By the way, this bug can help us trace this problem and reconfirm the correctness of UA.
If UA is correct, we can close this bug.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WURFL

Comment 3

[Peipei Cheng (needinfo if you need my action)]

Just searched out these two bugs for the two sites mentioned in comment 0.

Bug 933645 - timesofindia.com isn't redirecting to mobile site on Firefox OS
Bug 932846 - rediff.com isn't redirecting to mobile site on Firefox OS

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

This bug doesn't track anything useful. I will close it as INVALID.
"Some websites cannot recognize FxOS user agent" is basically our activity in Web Compatibility and 80% of the bugs in "Tech Evangelism"/"Mobile".

Though you are welcome to help.
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/
and https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/Contribute

Also 
http://arewecompatibleyet.com/