865097 - Trying to add a photo to a Facebook status post does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 843877

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Preinstalled B2G Apps, defect)

Description

[Simon Callan, Telefonica]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.65 Safari/537.31

Steps to reproduce:

Try to update you status. Click on the camera icon


Actual results:

It just shows a text box - you can type free form text into it, but nothing happens


Expected results:

Should allow you to chose a photo from your gallery, or use camera

Comment 1

[Simon Callan, Telefonica]

ZTE OPEN

Comment 2

[Kai-Chih Hu [:khu]]

As far as I know, this feature is not finished yet...?

Comment 3

[Lisa Brewster [:adora]]

During previous tests by the app review team, all photo upload actions advised the user that this feature isn't supported yet, and gave a custom email address that could be used to send photos.  Notifying developer of regression.

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Lisa Brewster [:adora] from comment #3)
> During previous tests by the app review team, all photo upload actions
> advised the user that this feature isn't supported yet, and gave a custom
> email address that could be used to send photos.  Notifying developer of
> regression.

Umm...I'm seeing an email address on my account. The browser support issue is already known - facebook relies on using DOM input=file and hasn't moved to adding support here.

So no, this isn't a regression I'm seeing from my end - as Kevin cites, this is still the same issue we've known all along for a long time even back in FxAndroid days.

Comment 5

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Actually, wrong bug.

This is going to be solved when we pull out the UA override in bug 843877.

Comment 6

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

A bit more detail:

Facebook in a FxAndroid context switches over to a new status post layout that actually supports photo uploads. However, FxOS doesn't support this functionality in 1.01 and we've still got the old override left behind, so we end up with a partially non-functional UI in that case.

If you switch the UA to the FxOS UA, you'll notice we're going to get the old behavior we used to see. So this is solved when we uplift bug 843877.

But please, do not message the developer on this one. This will cause a regression on FxAndroid if you do.

Comment 7

[Simon Callan, Telefonica]

So what's the outcome of this - the app doesn't work on the FFOS devices we are going to launch- and posting photos is a key use case so will this work by time devices launch in 8 weeks?
Thanks

Comment 8

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

(In reply to Simon Callan, Telefonica from comment #7)
> So what's the outcome of this - the app doesn't work on the FFOS devices we
> are going to launch- and posting photos is a key use case so will this work
> by time devices launch in 8 weeks?
> Thanks

Yes, the app has it's issues. We've got a list of issues all bucketed off the facebook.com meta bug - bug 759986. We've made strong progress to get a lot of issues resolved, however (i.e. it was a lot worse months back - we were getting outdated web content).

The input=file option is out as a choice to solve this problem for 1.01 completely given that we don't support that functionality. The best possible option we've got here is that we would tell facebook to use web activities if they exist on a FF OS user agent only to get photo uploads. Otherwise, we'll remain with the same issue we've known for a while on FxAndroid of being unable to upload photos directly from the phone and having to email them instead.

Comment 9

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Note for discussion on comment 8 - that's more relevant to bug 709742.