908391 - aftenposten.no does not recognize B2G UA as mobile

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

aftenposten.no serves a desktop site to B2G.  This is a top site in Norway and showed up as a partner issue in bug 904488.  Evangelism or a UA override would be helpful here.

Comment 1

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

Pinged @aftenposten and a suitable Schibsted person on Twitter. We'll see if there is a response.

Comment 2

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

safari + ipod    -> Redirection to mobile site.
firefox os + ZTE -> desktop site

Comment 3

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

Developer plans to look at it: https://twitter.com/erikkri/status/371330587673772033

Comment 4

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

Tested and fixed. Thanks to Aftenpost team.
Firefox OS receives the mobile version.
http://twitter.com/anordby/status/372675198828306432

Comment 5

[Viga]

(In reply to Hallvord R. M. Steen from comment #3)
> Developer plans to look at it:
> https://twitter.com/erikkri/status/371330587673772033

How this fixed? Do we change the UA profile or the Norway site get the Mobile information via HTTP header?

Comment 6

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

(In reply to weijia from comment #5)
> How this fixed? Do we change the UA profile or the Norway site get the
> Mobile information via HTTP header?

Weijia, we did not make any change to our software.  Karl's group worked with the website to properly recognize the firefox os device as a mobile platform.  They were likely looking for Android/iOS specific text in the user agent string previously.  In effect, this was a bug in the website.  I believe Karl's group specializes in helping web sites resolve web compatibility issues like this in order to help the open web.

Karl, Hallvord, please correct me if I have misspoken here.  Thanks!

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Confirmed fixed on my Keon.