594955 - Figure out long-term strategy/support for mobile-device/platform detection/redirects

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

See bug 547810 and bug 550253, which have pretty much been the only two "mobile-device detection" bugs for Mozilla.com.

Going forward, we should figure out our long-term strategy for mobile-phone/device detection/redirects; this came up in today's Mozilla.com meeting, and I would like to have better sense of our mobile-support story on Mozilla.com.

Specifically:

* Webdev and WebQA would need an updated list of supported devices/user-agents, as well as to where each platform should redirect (Both Webdev and WebQA have written tests (http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.com/trunk/tests/) for mobile/desktop user-agents, and we'd like to keep our tests accurate and passing)

Open questions:

* Will we be supporting both Android and Maemo/Meego device detection/redirects?
* Will there be/is there a central place to reference all supported devices and their user-agents (which will help us in testing)?  Because it's production, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/platforms/ probably won't help QA test before we ship new pages on Mozilla.com
* Should we be messaging or redirecting users of platforms we support who are not on Fennec, to download it (from /m)?
* For the redesign, will there be new mobile pages, or will we be updating the current ones, with new information/style?
* Will we use a separate stylesheet on Mozilla.com for our supported mobile devices?

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Closing old Mozilla.org website bugs due to them not being relevant to the new Python-based Bedrock system. Re-open if this is a critical bug and should be resolved on the new system too.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Stephen: I'm guessing this was fixed to your satisfaction a long time ago?

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to Samuel Sidler (:ss) from comment #2)
> Stephen: I'm guessing this was fixed to your satisfaction a long time ago?

It was, yes, and we're now in the process of refining it further, even.