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Re: Twitter App "Graphics Downgrade"?

 

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Christoph Schulz <ch.schulz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 07.05.2016, 00:59 +0200 schrieb Christoph Schulz:
> > Hello,
> >
> > since some weeks the UT Twitter app got a "graphics downgrade": small
> > icons, awful "hitboxes"*, no picture upload, no "pull down to
> > refresh",
> > no endless scrolling, no swipe. Both browser and app (It's the same,
> > I
> > think the app is a web app "only" ^^)
> >
> > I've researched a bit and found out Twitter seems to "block" our
> > browser because of it's User Agent** (see attached images; #1 is UT,
> > #2
> > is mobile.twitter.com via desktop, #3 is desktop with UT UA)
>
> Found this: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/
> webbrowser-app/vivid/view/head:/src/Ubuntu/Web/ua-overrides-mobile.js
> >
> > My question is whether this is known and where I could file a bug
> > (Avengers didn't help and a quick search brought up nothing.)
> >
>

Hi Christoph :)

I noticed the same...I'm not sure it's intended, would you mind filing a
bug against webbrowser-app?

Cheers,
Andrea


> > Thank you.
> > Christoph
> >
> > * Clicking the link/icon you want is nearly impossible, you almost
> > every time open an other link, i.e. user's profile instead of a link
> > in
> > the tweet, the link in the tweet instead of retweet/fav and
> > retweet/fav
> > instead of fav/retweet.
> >
> > ** Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 14.04 like Android 4.4)
> > AppleWebKit/537.36 Chromium/35.0.1870.2 Mobile Safari/537.36
> >
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