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[Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> We experimented quite extensively with that in the past (our initial
> approach was, as suggested by mozilla, a minimal UA string), and
> unfortunately it didn’t cut it. Mozilla has taken the hard route, and
> their effort is admirable, but it’s an uphill battle that we can’t
> afford to fight now (I hope this changes in the future). We’ve chosen
> a pragmatic approach. Note that the browser advertises itself as
> "Ubuntu like Android", meaning that it still allows for proper
> detection.

I like that ways, guys! "hard" way can can cause bad user experience
(unadopted for mobile platforms sites).

2015-06-01 12:09 GMT+03:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Vicamo Yang <vicamo.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Gecko_user_agent_string_reference
> >
> > Maybe any string contains "Mobile" would be enough?
> > FirefoxOS uses "Mobile" without the OS part, so probably Ubuntu Phone can
> > have "Ubuntu; Mobile" instead.
>
> We experimented quite extensively with that in the past (our initial
> approach was, as suggested by mozilla, a minimal UA string), and
> unfortunately it didn’t cut it. Mozilla has taken the hard route, and
> their effort is admirable, but it’s an uphill battle that we can’t
> afford to fight now (I hope this changes in the future). We’ve chosen
> a pragmatic approach. Note that the browser advertises itself as
> "Ubuntu like Android", meaning that it still allows for proper
> detection.
>
>
> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Olivier Tilloy
> > <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Vincent JOBARD <vinzjobard@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I think that comes because oxyde, the webbroser use an Android-Chrome
> >> > user-agent.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Winael
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Le lun. 1 juin 2015 08:59, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> a
> >> > écrit :
> >> >>
> >> >> I'm curious to know about how the world sees Ubuntu. I recently went
> to
> >> >> check my emails using the gmail app only to find myself logged out. I
> >> >> didn't
> >> >> think much of it and entered my details. It let me in but the result
> >> >> was an
> >> >> email being sent to me containing the following:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi Gareth,Your Google Account gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx was just used
> to
> >> >> sign in on Android.
> >> >>
> >> >> So why does Google think Ubuntu is Android? Is this how the web as a
> >> >> whole
> >> >> sees our phones? Is there not a way to report back a Linux or Ubuntu?
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Gareth, Vincent,
> >>
> >> Aside from the minor confusion (oxide is the web rendering engine, not
> >> the browser itself), this is mostly correct. The webbrowser
> >> application advertises a user-agent string that contains an "Android"
> >> token, which causes most websites and webapps to serve
> >> android-specific content.
> >> Without this trick, most websites and webapps would serve content that
> >> is not adapted for mobile/touch.
> >>
> >> See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1328183 for details about the rationale
> >> for choosing such a UA string.
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >>  Olivier
> >>
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