762967 - Bank of America Serves Desktop Site to Fennec Native, Not Mobile Site Seen on Webkit

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 784463

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Bank of America on Fennec Native gets served a desktop site, not the mobile site seen on Webkit. UA sniffing is evident here.

Comment 1

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

Jason - Can you remind me which top list Bank of America is on?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] from comment #1)
> Jason - Can you remind me which top list Bank of America is on?

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/bankofamerica.com

Global Rank - 126
US Rank - 26

Comment 3

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

Thanks Jason. I missed the US rank when I looked up the site.

Comment 4

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

As of August 20th, I get a mobile site served to Nightly (08/20).

Comment 5

[Adrian Tamas (:AdrianT)]

Tested on Motorola Droid 3 running Android 2.3.4 and Samsung Note running Android 4.0.4 using Nightly 18.0a1 2012-08-28, Aurora 16.0a2 2012-08-27 and Firefox Mobile 15 RC build. On all Firefox versions going to bankofamerica.com results in the Desktop version being displayed. The stock Android Browser still displays the mobile version

Comment 6

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

I can confirm that as of Aug 28, 2012, I also get the desktop version of the site served to Fennec. I was previously getting a mobile version served. This site has regressed.

Comment 7

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I suggest dup'ing this to bug 784463 and follow up the twisted story of BoA sniffing over there. The regression mentioned above has been fixed - although we're now getting a very basic mobile site. I'm guessing the history went like this:
- BoA gets complaints that Fx on Android doesn't get mobile site (or just accidentally enables it)
- BoA's mobile site depends too much on -webkit- stuff, doesn't render or work correctly
- BoA switches back to serving desktop content
- Finally, decide to serve the lo-fi mobile site