1130125 - extremetech.com does not redirect to mobile site due to pressly.com redirect

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[bug.zilla]

extremetech.com does not redirect to mobile site.
Works in Opera.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

We can't control server behavior.

Comment 2

[bug.zilla]

I know. One for Evangelism.

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

So they're using a service called "Pressly" to do mobile detection (http://www.pressly.com/):

http://read.pressly.com/52960da3646f6d79c9030000/52961061646f6d79c9200000/redirect.js

There's a few problems in Pressly.Device.supportsMinimumRequirements:

> var isAncientMobileDevice = (OSversion.os === "Android" && versionNumber < 4);

This will be false because versionNumber is NaN, because it relies on having an Android version token in the UA string--which we don't have.

And their supportsNativeOverflowScroll function sniffs for the old Fennec UA string: 

> userAgent.match( /Fennec\/([0-9]+)/ ) && RegExp.$1 >= 4 ||

So return this.supportsNativeOverflowScroll() && !isAncientMobileDevice will be false. 

IMO, we should reach out to Pressly to get this fixed on their servers (which is where the redirect script is hosted anyways).

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

It seems like a similar issue than Bug 971235

Comment 5

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

We seem we had a contact with Pressly in Bug 808572
Corban Brook still seems to work at Pressly. https://twitter.com/corban
Let's put him in needinfo for this bug. Hi Corban!

There is also Bug 971235.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

We get a working mobile site on Firefox.