896951 - spiegel.de delivers feature phone version to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

spiegel.de is the most popular German news site. Currently it will deliver a mobile optimized version for smartphones under m.spiegel.de and a version for feature phones under ml.spiegel.de. Since they don't recognize the Firefox OS browsers as a smartphone, but presumably look at the screen resolution, Firefox OS gets the feature phone version of the site.

They should deliver m.spiegel.de to Firefox OS devices instead.

Comment 1

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

Contacted on http://www1.spiegel.de/active/kontakt/fcgi/lesermail.fcgi

Comment 2

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

layout-wise, the difference between the version FirefoxOS gets and the version the stock browser on Android gets isn't that bad. However, go to videos and Spiegel says no supported format is found. (This should probably be reported separately)

Comment 3

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

(If I use m.spiegel.de/video directly the videos work - so the video problem is just a side effect of being sent to the ml.spiegel rather than the m.spiegel site.)

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Hallvord, did they get back to you in any form?

Comment 5

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

Only an automated standard response I'm afraid. Maybe we have to get a bit sneaky and try to find someone who works there - or someone who knows someone..

Comment 6

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

Site uses JavaScript for browser detection. The code is here: 

http://www.spiegel.de/layout/js/http/javascript-V4-8.js

and starts with these lines:

var spMobilePlusHost="http://m.spiegel.de";
var spOldMobileHost="http://ml.spiegel.de";

var spDeviceConfig ={
	"devices": [
	           {"name": "iPad", "target":"ignore",

Comment 7

[l.rsh2]

As of 18 Sep 2014, using the useragent

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0

does NOT lead to m or ml (mobile sites). I get only the desktop site.

Comment 8

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

Attachment: Screenshot from Flame smartphone

Comment 9

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

fixed