Where should I post this? Should I just edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Mobile_browsers directly?
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <[email protected]> wrote: > Juliusz, did this get posted to a wiki yet? > > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Interesting. And sad. Thanks for tracking that down. >> >> >> >> On 04/24/2014 04:34 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote: >> >>> From: https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/issues/29 >>> "the new S4 stock browser is actually using a bastardized version of >>> Chrome Mobile, but locked at version 18.0.1025.308". >>> >>> they quote the ua as: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; en-au; >>> SAMSUNG GT-I9500 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) >>> Version/1.0 Chrome/18.0.1025.308 Mobie Safari/535.19" >>> >>> This UA might easily be mistaken for the vanilla version of Chrome.. >>> There might be more browsers like that. Thank you manufacterers. >>> >>> DJ >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Brion Vibber wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just a quick note: Android 2.3 and Windows Phone 7.5 (IE 9) devices >>>>> have >>>>> no software upgrade path; we can only wait for them to fall out of the >>>>> market as devices get replaced. [Well technically Android 2.3 users >>>>> could >>>>> run Firefox, but getting people to switch browsers on mobile is hard! >>>>> >>>> >>>> I know, but I'm not too worried about IE9. Its usage is already pretty >>>> low. >>>> When it comes to Android 2.3 a few months ago I had an idea of showing >>>> banners to its users suggesting that they upgrade to Firefox. I'll push >>>> more >>>> for it so that we find some time to actually get it done. It should not >>>> be >>>> too difficult and I'd be curious to see if it improves Firefox metrics. >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm also a little worried to see old versions of Chrome in there; does >>>>> this mean there's a lot of people who aren't turning on updates on >>>>> their >>>>> phone and are using an old version that shipped with the phone? Or is >>>>> there >>>>> something else holding back updates on some devices? With Chrome and >>>>> Firefox >>>>> on fast release cycles, it can be a pain to support old bugs... >>>>> >>>> >>>> I'm also not sure where this comes from. I'd wait and see if it changes >>>> in >>>> the next few months. If it doesn't, we could investigate why Chrome >>>> Mobile >>>> 18 and not any other old version is that popular. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Juliusz >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mobile-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Arthur Richards > Software Engineer, Mobile > [[User:Awjrichards]] > IRC: awjr > +1-415-839-6885 x6687 >
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