Mobile Web Compatibility - 2013-04-08 Minutes

Tracked Actions

• [lmandel] Create patch for UA overrides for Alexa top 100 site data for Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, and Serbia
  • [lmandel] Site lists sent to aaronmt to run through screenshot tool
  • [lmandel] send Tony a list of sites that we want Qanalyst to retest against B2G (Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, and Serbia)
  • [lmandel] Sent instructions to Tony (today) on how to review Aaron's screenshot lists.

Site Testing, Evangelism & Communication Status

• lapatilla.com recognizes B2G UA as mobile (bug 828428) - Thanks to Leonard Camacho
• laverdad.com recognizes B2G UA as mobile (bug 828441) - Thanks to Leonard Camacho
• el-nacional.com does not recognize B2G UA as mobile (bug 856662)
• runrun.es does not recognize B2G UA as mobile (bug 856786)
• lmandel pinged TechCrunch (bug 813365) on Twitter today about site redirection issue

https://twitter.com/mmmandel/status/321329543275220992

Gecko Specific Issues

• bug 840928 Transition to a WebKit engine - check out the latest comment from Mike Habicher (good fun)

Other Issues (tools, general, ...)

• Welcome to Mauro and Spade update
  • current status of spade -> see https://github.com/mozilla/spade/issues
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobileWebEvangelism-tools
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-evangelism-tool-planning
• Phony limitation for testing
  • Doesn't modify navigator.userAgent, has it regressed otherwise?
  • Regressed in FF17 bug 814379
  • Probably means we need to move to a primary "analyze on FF OS" model instead of testing using phony
• Google forks WebKit, creates Blink
• Vishy: Preliminary survey results?
  • Going out today
• Hiring update