On Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 1:47:47 AM UTC-6, Karl Dubost wrote: > 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
And sadly our small team of 2.5 isn't prepared to do all the outreach for the many many future bug reports of "website.com gives Android app install banner" or "website.com sends 302 to Android app store intent URI" that adding "Android" to the UA string will undoubtedly cause. :( Even with more headcount for doing outreach (I believe Karl is the only dedicated employee for these types of things in Mozilla), these issues takes months and years to get traction on. We need to be very careful about the consequences of considering changes like these. (For example, Microsoft is working on supporting Android and iOS apps in Windows Phone 10 -- UA string hacks aren't enough to make a compelling platform experience.) _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
