878638 - flickr.com doesn't recognize B2G UA as mobile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

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

flickr.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.

Comment 1

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

# firefox OS - NOT OK

→ http HEAD http://www.flickr.com/  User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK


# Chrome on Galaxy - OK

→  http HEAD http://www.flickr.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19'

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
location: http://m.flickr.com


→  http HEAD http://m.flickr.com/ User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.0.4; Galaxy Nexus Build/IMM76B) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Mobile Safari/535.19'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK


# Firefox for Android - OK

→ http HEAD http://www.flickr.com/  User-Agent:'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0' 

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
location: http://m.flickr.com


Contacting someone from Flickr.

Comment 2

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

There are additional Flickr bugs that are linked off of meta bug 763514.

Comment 3

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

A response from Flickr.

> Hi Karl,
> 
> Apologies for not responding sooner; this email escaped my notice after getting back from some time off.
> 
> We can definitely make this change, but before we do, are you happy with how m.flickr.com works on Firefox OS browsers? I want to make sure we aren't dropping users into a broken experience.
> 
> *****

I'm testing. If anyone has an issue with using the m.flickr.com version, please leave a comment here. Do not forget to remove the UA override. Thanks.

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

OK I have tested Explore, Search, etc. And everything seems to be working fine for me. I do not have a Flickr account, so if someone is willing to test for upload. That would be cool.

For me it's a go to Flickr Team.

Comment 5

[:gerard-majax]

It would be awesome to have a Flickr webapp handling the Share activity for multiple pictures :)

Comment 6

[:gerard-majax]

Anyway, Flickr redirects me to the mobile version correctly, I can login, and I can upload (filepicker seems broken on my device).

Comment 7

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

:gerard-majax Thanks a lot for the test. 
With regards to your comment #5 I suggest https://www.flickr.com/help/with/ideas/

Comment 8

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

We need a fix for bug 732355.

Comment 9

[Ross Harmes]

This is Ross from Flickr. I've just deployed a change so that the Firefox OS browser will be taken to m.flickr.com.

Karl, let me know if you see any issues. It passed my testing.

Comment 10

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Just tested. Erase cookies. Removed the UA override locally.

Working.
Wonderful Ross! 

Thanks a lot.