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