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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Olivier Tilloy wrote on 16/06/16 16:12:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>…
>>> If you can access Facebook messages on an M10 but not on other devices,
>>> that suggests Browser might work around the problem by using a
>>> particular User-Agent string specifically for Facebook.
>>
>> This will need to be tested,
>
> It would be easier to test if Browser had a “Request Desktop Site”
> function, like Safari and Chrome do. (Which is useful generally when Web
> developers omit functions from a mobile site.)

This is https://launchpad.net/bugs/1377033.


>>                              but it’s likely that a desktop UA string
>> on a phone screen will make for a very bad UX.
>
> That’s an example of why I avoid the term “UX”: it’s nearly always far
> too vague to be useful. Not being able to use something at all is a
> fairly bad user experience.

It is indeed. Browsing a website that was designed only for desktop
use (assuming mouse and physical keyboard, a wide external monitor,
and no touchscreen) can also result in a fairly bad user experience.
How bad in comparison to the lack of a feature is subjective of
course, so this needs to be tested. Either way there doesn’t seem to
be an easy solution to the removal of the messenger feature from the
mobile website.