I believe in the beginning of Mozilla we did something similar. Once we became popular we started pushing back on some of these hacks we were not happy with.
It is better to give a better web to our users (me included!) and gain adoption than reaching for ideal and give a bad experience. On 2 December 2015 at 09:02, Frederik Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe we do need to add the "Android" keyword - contrary to earlier > arguments in > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/User_Agent#Why_.22Android.22.3F > > > On 02.12.2015 11:09, Wilson Page wrote: > > A while back I highlighted the fact that the Gecko user-agent string was > > resulting in our users being served second class experiences. Facebook > > [1] and Google [2] were the most obvious. > > > > These two issues were related to image assets, but the problem is worse > > than that. Facebook is sniffing for Chrome in order to provide Service > > Worker Push and Google is providing enhanced experiences across its > > product line for Chrome. > > > > I've been told WebCompat <https://webcompat.com> is the solution to this > > problem, but I'm not convinced. My two issues so far have had no sign of > > being fixed; simply put: why would they care? We're a small fish on > mobile. > > > > I think we should be seriously considering exploring UA ambiguity (and > > all that that comes with > > < > https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/06/17/building-a-more-interoperable-web-with-microsoft-edge/ > >), > > at least on /Firefox OS, /if we are to provide the best web experience > > on mobile. > > > > It's hard to swallow (especially being Mozilla) but I fear the > > alternative is much worse. > > > > --- > > > > *Chrome:* > > > Mozilla/5.0(Linux;<AndroidVersion>;<BuildTagetc.>)AppleWebKit/<WebKitRev>(KHTML,like > > Gecko)Chrome/<ChromeRev>MobileSafari/<WebKitRev> > > > > *FirefoxOS:* Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:<Gecko rev>) Gecko/<Gecko rev> > > Firefox/<Gecko rev> > > > > *Edge*|*:* Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, > > like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136| > > > > --- > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1229026 > > [2] https://webcompat.com/issues/1827 > > > > *W I L S O N P A G E* > > > > Front-end Developer > > Firefox OS (Gaia) > > London Office > > > > Twitter: @wilsonpage > > IRC: wilsonpage > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-fxos mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > -- Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen Automation & Tools Engineer http://armenzg.blogspot.ca
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