809796 - ESPN serves Firefox for Android a basic HTML mobile site instead of touch version

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Attachment: Firefox for Android - Beta 17

Firefox 17.0b5 (2012-11-07)
Device: Galaxy S2
OS: Android 4.0.3

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to espn.go.com

Expected result:
ESPN touch version is loaded.

Actual result:
A basic HTML mobile site is loaded (see attached screenshot).

Notes:
On stock browser, the correct site version is loaded.
The page looks different on the Nightly and Aurora than it looks on the stock browser and it looks on the Beta build.

Comment 1

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Attachment: Stock browser

Comment 2

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Attachment: Firefox for Android - Nightly 19, Aurora 18

Comment 3

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

Interesting. I see the touch site using Firefox 16. Using Nightly 19 I see the desktop site. Seems to be a regression. Perhaps they don't recognize the updated version in the UA.

As the screenshots show, ESPN is also not serving their videos to Firefox. (Main picture is a click target in the stock browser but not in Firefox.)

Comment 4

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

still an issue, also confirming differences betwen Fx versions..

Comment 5

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

Seems much of the sniffing and adaptation is in JS. It's clearly meant to be progressively enhanced and degrade gracefully, and I must say that the version Firefox on Android gets by default also is pretty good. However, it would be nice to also get the videos and such..

Comment 6

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

I am able to play videos on FF Android now, though Chrome is still providing the enhanced UI.

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

adam,

can you play the video at m.espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/10263556/louisville-chris-jones-trying-measure-memphis-joe-jackson

Comment 8

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

No, 404

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Yes my bad. Being too quick. The link is 
http://m.espn.go.com/ncb/story?storyId=10263556&src=desktop&wjb

Sorry about that.

Comment 10

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Yes but like the other videos it navigates away from the page (no embedded player). Goes to this: http://mvads.cdn.espn.com/now/stitched/mp4/4d993388-8b49-4f34-9e48-87906e690281/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/681f29c5-81eb-4229-9801-ebe21531a57c/59197eff-cb17-486e-b4d5-ab8fbaffa384/0/0/124/1421470045/content.mp4

Comment 11

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Trying to contact a person on ESPN team
https://github.com/orgs/espn/members

Hopefully he can redirect me to the right person. That would be pretty cool.

Comment 12

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

https://twitter.com/davidpean/status/430762212018233344

Comment 13

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

This is awesome.