742046 - Google Images serves desktop version to Native Fennec

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

An HTTP GET Request with the UA in Nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:14.0) Gecko/14.0 Firefox/14.0a1 -- is served the desktop version of http://images.google.com

An HTTP GET Request with the UA in Chrome Beta: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.4; en-us; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76D) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) CrMo/16.0.912.77 Mobile Safari/535.7 -- is served the mobile touch-friendly version of http://images.google.com

Spoofing the UA in Nightly to Chrome Beta's will result in the mobile touch-friendly version (as of April 2012) of the site with some caveats of broken layout.

Initial look at some of the WebKit properties they are using:

* -webkit-appearance
* -webkit-backface-visibility
* -webkit-background-size
* -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius
* -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius
* -webkit-border-image
* -webkit-border-radius
* -webkit-border-top-left-radius
* -webkit-border-top-right-radius
* -webkit-box-align
* -webkit-box-flex
* -webkit-box-orient
* -webkit-box-pack
* -webkit-box-shadow
* -webkit-box-sizing
* -webkit-input-placeholder
* -webkit-mask-box-image
* -webkit-perspective
* -webkit-scrollbar-corner
* -webkit-scrollbar-thumb
* -webkit-scrollbar-track-piece
* -webkit-scrollbar
* -webkit-scrollbar-button
* -webkit-scrollbar-track
* -webkit-tap-highlight-color
* -webkit-text-size-adjust
* -webkit-touch-callout
* -webkit-transform
* -webkit-transition
* -webkit-transition-duration
* -webkit-transition-property
* -webkit-user-select

Comment 1

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

We should only link to bug 739832 if the site is broken on gecko without the UA changed.

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Nominating for kilimanjaro, as this affects a top google app and site for fennec native.

Comment 3

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Switching the UA, I noticed that the top google bar does not even render at all. Searching for an image results in the desktop site getting rendered.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

As if June 14th, 2012 - they are now serving a sub-optimal basic HTML version. As I understand it, we're really pushing for their touch-webkit based version.

Comment 5

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

Added reference to bug 638827, which is the interaction bug for this website on the phone version of Fennec.

Note that the tablet version of Fennec is served the appropriate version of Google Images, but the page's display is broken (see bug 769530).

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

As of 08/07, Google is now serving the touch version to us.