On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Karl Dubost <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Wilson, > > Le 2 déc. 2015 à 19:09, Wilson Page <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I think we should be seriously considering exploring UA ambiguity (and > all that that comes with), at least on Firefox OS, if we are to provide the > best web experience on mobile. > > I think I already explained in the past. ^_^ > We already have **UA override**. > Firefox OS: > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/b2g/app/ua-update.json.in > Firefox Android: > https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/android/app/ua-update.json.in > > > UA overriding doesn't solve it. Sometimes it often creates even a worse > experience for a user with a total broken experience. For example, making > the UA of Firefox OS being Chrome and you get a totally unusable Web site, > because Google expects it to be Chrome feature sets and rendering engine. > See for example > https://bug914252.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=8689920 > in the bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=914252 > Understood. I know there is a lot more work than just changing the UA :) > That said > we (Web Compat) are working for months already with Engineering on how to > remove the most important issues (implementing non-standards API, Aliasing > some webkit properties, etc). **Once** these are in place, we will have a > lot more flexibility on playing with the UA. You can follow > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170774 to see our progress. > This is awesome, I has no idea this was going on! :) Note that I'm happy to discuss anything about Google properties. I'm the > Moz point of contact for all Web compat issues with Google. The discussion > with Google is along two axis: > > 1. send a specific version to a specific UA string > What exactly would we request in this area? > 2. fix the CSS/JS they send. > > The 1. is not very hard for them. The 2. has mostly been a no-no on many > issues. > But the 1. can't happen if the version we receive is worse than the > version we were receiving initially. > > > PS: Wilson, Let's meet in Orlando next week. Let's have a coffee or drink. > And I will share and show you what our team is doing and the extent of the > issues. > Let's do it. When is a good time? How do I find you :) > > -- > Karl Dubost, Mozilla > http://www.la-grange.net/karl/moz > >
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