Closed Bug 875098 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

www.globeandmail.ca is displayed poorly in Browser

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Platform:
ARM
Gonk (Firefox OS)
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: mikeh, Assigned: karlcow)

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Details

(Whiteboard: [country-ca][sitewait][serversniff])

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The Globe and Mail is Canada's paper of record, and its mobile site shows up horribly in the b2g browser. STR: 1. open Browser app 2. go to www.globeandmail.ca -- will redirect to m.globeandmail.com Expected result: display parity with other smartphones. Observed results: see attached screen shots.
The headlines are all jumbled together, separator lines are missing, and (not shown) photos which should appear left-aligned are all over the place.
They appear to be doing some kind of browser sniffing and sending a "fallback" version for Firefox OS which doesn't work properly. For example, if I load m.theglobeandmail.com in desktop Firefox the body tag looks like: <body class="news smartphone other notouch"> and it renders fine. If I load it in the B2G Simulator, the body tag looks like: <body class="news fallback other notouch"> There appears to be no CSS rendered and I see a JavaScript error. I don't think it's just based on UA string because if I spoof my UA string in desktop Firefox I still get the same version, they must be doing some other form of sniffing?
Assignee: nobody → english-other
Component: Gaia::Browser → English Other
Product: Boot2Gecko → Tech Evangelism
As an extra data-point, my BlackBerry (running OS 7.1 which has a WebKit-based browser) renders the m.theglobeandmail.com page properly.
Moving this to Mobile, nobody is really paying attention to these language components (AFAIK).
Assignee: english-other → nobody
Component: English Other → Mobile
Apparently they're doing some server-side detection that fails to recognize Firefox OS devices as mobile: Selected response headers for Firefox OS: Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1' Response Status: 301 location: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ Selected response headers for Firefox for Android: Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:27.0) Gecko/27.0 Firefox/27.0' Response Status: 302 location: http://m.theglobeandmail.com/?service=mobile The suggested fix would be to send Firefox OS to the same location as Firefox for Android.
Whiteboard: [country-ca][contactready][serversniff]
asking a friend.
Trying to contact a Web developer at Globe And Mail http://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/458096030207053825
Assignee: nobody → kdubost
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: [country-ca][contactready][serversniff] → [country-ca][sitewait][serversniff]
This has been FIXED. Thanks to the Globe And Mail team.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
So there is a regression. Firefox OS receives again the desktop site. Let deal with this on https://webcompat.com/issues/1365 instead of here. I keep here closed.
See Also: → https://webcompat.com/issues/1365
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
Component: Mobile → Site Reports
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