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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here’s an interesting read from the mobile IE development team:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/07/31/the-mobile-web-should-
just-work-for-everyone.aspx.

In essence, they had to modify their UA string to get a number of sites
to render properly in mobile IE. Unfortunately the article doesn’t go
into details as to whether they only changed the default UA or if they
use a per-site override mechanism, or a combination of both (like we
do).

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Title:
  User-Agent string results in poor UX on web

Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The User-Agent string for the browser is similar enough to the Android
  browser User-Agent, that it creates a poor experience when browsing
  the web on an Ubuntu phone. An inordinately large number of web sites
  persistently advertise to "install our app" instead of providing the
  best web experience; an app which cannot be installed.

  This is exacerbated by the pervasiveness of webapps on Ubuntu phone,
  which simply embed the mobile web site with webapp-container, and
  still result in seeing such advertisements, despite the fact that the
  "app" on Ubuntu is already installed, and the Android apps being
  advertised are simply not installable.

  Having all the big web sites telling users of Ubuntu that they should
  be using Android instead, is not very good for the user experience at
  all.

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