723723 - [Mobile Redirect] aurora.mozilla.org should redirect ...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[mcbmoz]

James, can you help us put the right redirects into place for two use cases.

Currently, a user on a tablet and a smart phone types in aurora.mozilla.org, she is taken to the following desktop page, which features the desktop build: 

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/aurora/

This needs to be changed to better suit the user:

#1 - Tablet users (more than 500 pixels wide) bypass the /m site and should be directed to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/aurora/

#2 - Smartphone users (less than 500 pixels wide) should be directed to a newly launched page at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/m/firefox/aurora/

Thanks, can this go into the 1.5 or 1.6 release?

Comment 3

[James Long (:jlongster)]

I think I understand now. The tablet user redirect unfortunately has to be client-side which sucks because it's quite slow for the user. That's the way Anthony did it before and it's really the only way to redirect based on screen size. Hopefully we can find a better way to detect tablet users at some point.

done in r101451 and r101451

All the channels are done in those revs.

aurora.mozilla.org (and other channels) redirect to mozilla.org/firefox/aurora. What my changes do is redirect the latter page to the appropriate place. So:

Smartphone: /firefox/aurora -> /en-US/m/firefox/aurora
Tablet: /firefox/aurora -> /en-US/mobile/aurora
Desktop: /firefox/aurora -> /en-US/firefox/aurora

Note that the desktop page does not force the redirect, only /firefox/aurora does (without the locale).

This is exactly the same for the other channels.

Comment 4

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Oops, the second revision should have been r101452

Comment 5

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Please test /firefox/aurora. We can't test aurora.mozilla.org since it points to the live site.

Comment 6

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

This doesn't work on the stock browser on the ASUS Transformer (Tablet). The UA:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.2.1; en-us; Transformer TF101 Build/HTK75) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13 

Maybe you should add Android to the mobile_redirect regex?

Comment 7

[James Long (:jlongster)]

I thought the same thing but I left it out for now because I assumed there was a reason it's not already in there. I'll add it in soon.

Comment 8

[James Long (:jlongster)]

scumbag bugzilla, keepin' all yur bugz private

Comment 9

[mcbmoz]

Good new here is that on into early Q2 we will no longer do mobile detection this way, the site will be responsive and our detection will be more focused on swapping out download buttons to serve Android downloads when someone hits from a mobile device.

Just a final hurdle on the old site and old design :-)

Comment 10

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

The tablet and smartphone redirects are not working

Comment 11

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Raymond, and more info? What tablet/smartphones? What UA?

Comment 12

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

using Samsung  Galaxy Tab stock android browser

Comment 13

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Can you put the User-Agent of it here? I don't have one to test it on.

It's likely we can fix it by matching on Android, I just want to be sure.

Comment 14

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

(In reply to James Long (:jlongster) from comment #13)
> Can you put the User-Agent of it here? I don't have one to test it on.
> 
> It's likely we can fix it by matching on Android, I just want to be sure.

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 3.2; en-us; GT-P7510 Build/HTJ85B) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/534.13

Comment 15

[Amir Aharoni]

This doesn't work for me Samsung Galaxy S2 on aurora.mozilla.org.

Comment 16

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Please try this again. I updated the platform detection.

Comment 17

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

works now

Comment 18

[James Long (:jlongster)]

pushed to production r103614