On Friday, August 31, 2012 12:22:40 PM UTC-4, Fabrice Desre wrote: > On 08/31/2012 09:04 AM, Guillermo López wrote: > > > 2012/8/30 Wil Clouser <[email protected]> > > > > > >> I just saw bug 787054 which is proposing adjusting our User Agent on a > > >> per-site basis using a white list. I didn't see a discussion about this > > >> but would like to hear the reasoning behind it. > > >> > > > > > > I'd love to see that too. > > > > Initially we removed the "Android" token from the UA string on b2g: > > - pros : this is the right thing to do. > > - cons : some sites, including prominent ones, are sending us wap-era > > mobile content. That makes the user experience crappy. > > > > This change was backed out, which means that we now get nice mobile > > content, but claiming to be android is far from ideal. For instance, > > some site offer to install their android app. > > > > This bug is an attempt at providing a pragmatic solution, to have nice > > content while we sort out the issue with broken sites (we have direct > > channels to talk with most of them). I don't expect the list to be huge, > > so maintaining a server side list may be overkill. > > > > > > Fabrice > > -- > > Fabrice Desré > > b2g team > > Mozilla Corporation
Fabrice, what is wrong with sites offering the user to download an Android app? Is it that this shows up on B2G as well? _______________________________________________ dev-webapps mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
