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[Hans Mayer <hans.mayer@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Olivier,

thanks for the reply.

Since the OTA 11 adds the aethercast to Meizu PRO 5, would it not be 
better to tell to sites "ubuntu on desktop"?

This could be hard coded in BQ tablet and Meizu (MX4 and PRO 5) as they 
have "big" display and "ubuntu like android" on BQ HD phones with 
"small" display.

My opinion about these "fairly broken" sites: I think they reduce 
features voluntary to force users to install apps, so they can control 
better the customers.

Best regards
Hans

On 06/01/2016 12:12 PM, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Hans Mayer <hans.mayer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a possibility to change the user agent the web browser on UT sends
> > to sites?
> > E.G. slack.com does not support UT. When opening the site, I have no access
> > to channels.
> > If I can say "i am a desktop", the displayed data would be the same as on
> > PC. This is ok on a Meizu 5 PRO.
> Hello Hans,
>
> There is currently no way of doing that through the UI. We have a user
> agent override mechanism, but the list of overrides is currently
> hardcoded in a system-wide file, so unless you make your phone system
> writeable (not recommended), this list cannot be changed (if you are
> willing to try at your own risk, I can send further instructions).
>
> Sites that selectively enable features based on user-agent sniffing
> are fairly broken, this is a thing from the past really. Unfortunately
> this is still very much commonplace.
> Can you report a bug to slack.com, requesting them to recognize the
> default ubuntu touch UA string?
>
> It looks like this:
>
>   Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Ubuntu 15.04 like Android 4.4) AppleWebKit/537.36
> Chromium/[chromiumVersion] Mobile Safari/537.36
>
> (where chromiumVersion is currently hardcoded at 35.0.1870.2, but a
> change will soon land that will make it dynamic, reflecting the
> current version of chromium the web engine is based upon, which at the
> time of writing is 50.0.2661.94)
>
> Our browser is based on chromium, pretty much anything that works on
> e.g. chrome on android should work exactly the same.
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
>   Olivier

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Best Regards
Hans