Closed Bug 843178 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

txt2nite.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: lmandel, Assigned: karlcow)

References

()

Details

(Whiteboard: [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff] [wptouch])

txt2nite.com serves a desktop site to B2G. Bug 823364 added an UA override for this domain. The override should be removed once the domain serves mobile content to B2G. This bug tracks the evangelism for the site to recognize the B2G UA and the removal of the override at that time.
Blocks: txt2nite.com
Whiteboard: [uaoverride]
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] → [uaoverride] [country-all]
Is it worth having a UA override for this site? Alexa Rank of TXT2NITE.COM is : 651,453 (low priority)
Flags: needinfo?(lmandel)
Yes. This site was a request from Everything.me in bug 843204.
Flags: needinfo?(lmandel)
On entering http://txt2nite.com/ on Desktop Firefox, http://www.txt2nite.com/ (desktop content) on ZTE (Firefox OS) without UA override http://www.txt2nite.com/ (desktop content) on ZTE (Firefox OS) with UA override http://www.txt2nite.com/ (mobile content) on Android + Firefox http://www.txt2nite.com/ (mobile content) on Android + Opera Mini http://www.txt2nite.com/ (mobile content) on iPod Touch + Safari http://www.txt2nite.com/ (mobile content) Firefox OS UA string should be recognized as a mobile. No site with feature detection and responsive design. On HTTP front and for finding a test. # Firefox for Android → http -v GET http://www.txt2nite.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' | grep -i "var wptouch" var WPtouch = {"ajaxurl":"http:\/\/www.txt2nite.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php","siteurl":"\/","SITETITLE":"txt2nite-textmessages","security_nonce":"dc35b096c8","loading_text":"Loading...","external_link_text":"This is an external link.","wptouch_ignored_text":"This page is not mobile formatted.","open_browser_text":"Do you want to open it in Safari?","instapaper_saved":"Saved to Instapaper!","instapaper_try_again":"Please try again","instapaper_username":"Username or E-Mail","instapaper_password":"Password (if you use one)","classic_post_desc":"Enter Description for Post","leave_a_comment":"Leave a comment","leave_a_reply":"Leave a reply to","comment_failure":"Comment publication failed. Please check your comment details and try again.","comment_success":"Your comment was published.","prowl_failure":"Direct messaging failed. Please check your message details and try again.","validation_message":"One or more fields were not completed.","leave_webapp":"Visiting this link will cause you to leave Web-App Mode. Are you sure?","add2home_message":"Install the txt2nite Web-App on your %device: tap %icon then \"Add to Home Screen\".","toggle_on":"ON","toggle_off":"OFF"}; # Firefox OS → http -v GET http://www.txt2nite.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' | grep -i "var wptouch" returns nothing
Assignee: nobody → kdubost
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] [country-all] → [uaoverride] [country-all] [serversniff]
For testing we have to allow a bit of time, the response time of the site is slow. Contacted with http://www.txt2nite.com/contact-us
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] [country-all] [serversniff] → [uaoverride] [country-all] [serversniff] [sitewait]
a reply from someone at txt2nite.
Sent a reminder.
> Sorry wil update wptouch later today. Approx 12 hours time. Hopfully this will solve the issue. I will reply. WPTouch needs to be fixed. It is the second site at least that is using it. I'm adding a dependency on Bug 909420
Depends on: wptouch
Flags: needinfo?(miket)
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Contacted the owner with a link to the blog post. https://miketaylr.com/posts/2013/10/firefox-os-and-wptouch.html
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] [country-all] [serversniff] [sitewait] → [uaoverride] [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff] [wptouch]
See Also: → 978658
Depends on: 980191
Removing UA override keyword by bug 980191
Whiteboard: [uaoverride] [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff] [wptouch] → [country-all] [sitewait] [serversniff] [wptouch]
Status Quo. Nothing has changed. They are still using wptouch: class="wptouch-pro device-android device-class-iphone skin-granny-green theme-classic post-thumbnails locale-en_us custom_thumbs green-planet cal-colors full-shown left-justify ajax-on hide-addressbar generic loadsaved video-css landscape" Each time I tried to communicate with "luke" to give updates on the status of the bug, I didn't receive any answers. So not sure we will be able to make any progress. The site is covered by ads, and do not seem to have much more activities. The last tweet is from February 6, 2014. https://twitter.com/txt2nite I'm tempted to close it as WONTFIX.
... sad, but maybe you should .
(In reply to Karl Dubost :karlcow from comment #11) > I'm tempted to close it as WONTFIX. I think this is reasonable. The cost/benefit of continuing to push on an unresponsive site gets worse the longer we try. At some point, it's just not worth pursuing anymore.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
Component: Mobile → Site Reports
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