639712 - Mobile page should fill entire screen

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Thomas Arend [:tarend]]

Attachment: Page rendering issue

(1) go to http://m.spiegel.de/article.do?id=749478 on Fennec Desktop or mobile

Result: (see screenshot) page only fills half of the screen. Scroll down and you see one extra long line with no blanks between words
Expected: page fills entire page, correct line wrap with blanks between words

Note: Android stock browser shows this page correctly.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Can reproduce on that article, but any other article on m.spiegel.de seems to render the mobile version rather fine (Nexus One)

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

http://m.spiegel.de/article.do?id=749478 sends different content to the Android browser than to Fennec.  If you use Phony to send an Android user-agent header, then this works correctly in Fennec.

The meta viewport tag for Android contains:

> width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1

The meta viewport tag for Fennec contains:

> width=device-width, height=device-height, user-scalable=no

The important difference is that the Fennec version does not set an initial scale, so Fennec applies its default behavior of zooming to fit the document width.  On most pages this does the same thing, except in cases like this where the document is wider than the viewport.

We could maybe change Fennec to zoom to the viewport width by default, but this would make it harder to access the right sidebar on many pages.  Since this looks easily fixable by the site author (just send the same markup to Fennec that they already send to Android), should this be an evangelism bug?

Comment 3

[Florian Hänel [:heeen]]

I contacted the site about this problem.

Comment 4

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Should we move this to an evangelism bug then?

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

The page works for me using Nightly.