Somehow "well enough" and "everyone telling all our users they should
just use Android instead" don't seem to equate with me.
Also, this bug is hardly invalid. You can say it won't be fixed, but
that is very different from invalid. If what you are saying is that it
won't ever be fixed, then change the status to won't fix, please.
The list of strings being in the browser to serve up different User-
Agent values for different sites, is a very bad "solution" IMO. You say
it shouldn't grow too big, but if we add another site (or several sites
including subdomains/etc) every time someone complains about this issue
on a new web site, it's going to grow.
Also, how does this play into the converged future? Sure, on the phone,
I might want to see the mobile version of the site instead, but when
running the browser on my workstation, surely I should be seeing the
full sites, which means dropping the "Android" from the User-Agent.
And finally, sites really should not be using the User-Agent to decide
what data to send in response. Mozilla might have an evangelist team to
help with their situation, but if they're evangelizing the adoption of
support for their User-Agent, they are not evangelizing a "free and open
web," but rather many different webs. Maybe we could work with Mozilla
though, to get their evangelist team to promote web sites which do not
use User-Agent to decide how to deliver a site to the user, and not have
"mobile" sites, but use responsive design (or whatever the buzzword of
the week is for making web sites that just work), for web sites.
** Changed in: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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