Maybe we do need to add the "Android" keyword - contrary to earlier arguments in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fennec/User_Agent#Why_.22Android.22.3F
On 02.12.2015 11:09, Wilson Page wrote: > A while back I highlighted the fact that the Gecko user-agent string was > resulting in our users being served second class experiences. Facebook > [1] and Google [2] were the most obvious. > > These two issues were related to image assets, but the problem is worse > than that. Facebook is sniffing for Chrome in order to provide Service > Worker Push and Google is providing enhanced experiences across its > product line for Chrome. > > I've been told WebCompat <https://webcompat.com> is the solution to this > problem, but I'm not convinced. My two issues so far have had no sign of > being fixed; simply put: why would they care? We're a small fish on mobile. > > I think we should be seriously considering exploring UA ambiguity (and > all that that comes with > <https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/06/17/building-a-more-interoperable-web-with-microsoft-edge/>), > at least on /Firefox OS, /if we are to provide the best web experience > on mobile. > > It's hard to swallow (especially being Mozilla) but I fear the > alternative is much worse. > > --- > > *Chrome:* > Mozilla/5.0(Linux;<AndroidVersion>;<BuildTagetc.>)AppleWebKit/<WebKitRev>(KHTML,like > Gecko)Chrome/<ChromeRev>MobileSafari/<WebKitRev> > > *FirefoxOS:* Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:<Gecko rev>) Gecko/<Gecko rev> > Firefox/<Gecko rev> > > *Edge*|*:* Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, > like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10136| > > --- > > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1229026 > [2] https://webcompat.com/issues/1827 > > *W I L S O N P A G E* > > Front-end Developer > Firefox OS (Gaia) > London Office > > Twitter: @wilsonpage > IRC: wilsonpage > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
