https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36894
Web browser: ---
Bug #: 36894
Summary: Mobile browser autodetection doesn't work
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: MobileFrontend
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
After installing MobileFrontend (master-0880467 2012-05-15) and following the
instructions described at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend one would expect that at
least mainstream mobile browser would be autodetected.
The fact is, autodetection only works if you "set up your configuration to
mimic how things are done at the WMF (doing device detection at the proxy layer
and setting specific X-Device headers)"
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend#Non-WMF_properties -
Otherwise you and your users are left with a link for manual switch at the
bottom of the page.
With that information it is likely that many MW admins will fail at getting
autodetection working.
Possible solutions:
- Provide instructions to set up a WMF mimic configuration.
- If the WMF solution is an overkill for the average MW installation and/or
really complex for amateur sysadmins, please consider the addition of a
poorman's autodetection. This should cover only the small group of mainstream
user agents and hopefully an ability for sysadmins to add more UAs manually,
based on the specific needs of their uses.
Would an approach like http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileDetect be
useful in this scenario? If that extension is OK (I haven't tried it) it would
be good to make it complementary of MF.
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