742125 - Google Maps service basic mobile version to Firefox for Android

Status: RESOLVED 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://maps.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://maps.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-background-size
* -webkit-border-image
* -webkit-border-radius
* -webkit-box-align
* -webkit-box-flex
* -webkit-box-orient
* -webkit-box-pack
* -webkit-box-shadow
* -webkit-box-sizing
* -webkit-mask-box-image
* -webkit-tap-highlight-color
* -webkit-text-size-adjust
* -webkit-transform
* -webkit-transition
* -webkit-transition-duration
* -webkit-transition-property
* -webkit-user-select

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

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

Comment 3

[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

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Renaming.

+ We don't get Google Maps Street View with the basic version. Loading as per instructions in the blog, I see javascript:void(0) and nothing loads.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.ca/2012/10/street-view-comes-to-google-maps-on.html

Comment 6

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #5)
> + We don't get Google Maps Street View with the basic version. Loading as
> per instructions in the blog, I see javascript:void(0) and nothing loads.
> 
> http://google-latlong.blogspot.ca/2012/10/street-view-comes-to-google-maps-
> on.html

Scratch that, it does seem to work. There is some fault logic in the browser when opening a seemingly disabled (no-street-view-available) link. For example, I searched 'Rogers Centre, Toronto' and tapped the icon. In iOS Safari, the button for street-view is disabled.

Comment 7

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Google now serves their HTML5 maps site to Firefox for Android.