978842 - pagina12.com.ar sends simplified site to Firefox OS

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Comment 1

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

This is an interesting issue - this is actually a site that serves Android and iPhone browsers the *desktop* site but serves Firefox OS the mobile-adapted site. Usually it's the other way around.

Now, we've correctly identified a case where a site sends FxOS different content, but I guess the main question is: which is a better user experience? There's also (if you scroll all the way to the bottom) on all pages links saying "switch to mobile/classic site" so the end user can in the end decide which site to use.

Based on that, I think we can close this bug without recommending changes to their site. If any of you local testers feel otherwise, for example think the mobile site is too limited and the "classic site" link is too hard to find, please feel free to reopen and contact the website.

HTTP traffic analysis below:

Firefox OS is redirected to http://m.pagina12.com.ar/diario/principal/index.html , Firefox for Android and Safari on iPhone are redirected to /diario/principal/index.html

Selected HTTP response headers (Firefox OS, Firefox on Android, Safari on iPhone
):

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1'
Response Status: 302
content-length: 20
location: http://m.pagina12.com.ar/diario/principal/index.html
content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:26.0) Gecko/26.0 Firefox/26.0'
Response Status: 302
content-length: 20
location: /diario/principal/index.html
content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Response for: 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit
/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25'
Response Status: 302
content-length: 20
location: /diario/principal/index.html
content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1