Compatibility/Mobile

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Mobile Web Compatibility

What Are Web Compatibility Issues?

A person should be able to use the Web with whichever device and browser they are using.

Unfortunately, some developers by choice or negligence will make their Web sites unusable by specific devices or browsers. We need to open up the Web to any rendering engines (Blink, Gecko, Trident, etc.) and/or browsers, when used on mobile devices.

There are 4 key problem areas that must be addressed:

  1. user agent (UA) detection
  2. specific CSS prefixes (such as WebKit)
  3. specific DOM/JS/content (such as WebKit)
  4. Gecko limitations (for Mozilla)

Goal

The vague goal for this project is to open up the mobile Web to all browsers. A specific project goal is being defined by the market insights, product, and project management teams.

Scope

In scope
  • Any site with a mobile version
  • Any locale
Out of scope
  • Site enhancements
  • Trivial site layout or functional bugs
  • Firefox Marketplace app testing

Get Involved

Fixing the Web will only be successful with the efforts of everyone (Web site developers, Volunteers, Partners, and Mozilla employees). Mozilla can't do it alone.

Projects

Wipe Out User Agent (UA) Overrides - In progress

owner: kdubost
The UA override mechanism allows B2G to force mobile content by sending a custom UA to a specified domain. The goal of this project is to drive the B2G UA override list to zero.

Fixing UA detection libraries - In progress

owner: miketaylr
User Agent detection libraries sometimes do not take into account Firefox OS and/or Firefox for Android. We (Mozilla and the community) try to contact them to fix the libraries.

90% Mobile Compatibility for the Alexa Top 1000 Sites - Backlog

90% Mobile Compatibility for the Alexa Top 1000 Sites to achieve 90% compatibility in terms of mobile content sent to Firefox for Android and Firefox OS by the Alexa top 1000 global sites.

Evangelism - In progress

Part of the Evangelism effort, the Web Compatibility Guide helps individuals to report, analyze and contact Web sites for issues with Web Compatibility. (work in progress)

(Mobile) Library and Framework Investigation - In progress

The ongoing goal of this project is to "audit" source code and issues/bug trackers of popular mobile frameworks to identify bugs, workarounds, or performance issues that need increased attention from Mozilla.


Video project - In progress

owner: hallvors
The Video project aims to get an overview of and improve the compatibility state of video watching sites.

Not active

Spade - Cancelled

Spade is an automated tool that will provide guidance as the the scope of the mobile Web problem. Note: this tool may be obsoleted by Seif Lotfy's work and is not being actively developed as of Nov-2013.

Communication

Communication Type Mechanism Audience
Announcements compatibility and dev-planning lists all
General discussion compatibility list all
Meetings Mondays 1pm PT
  • Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98830
    • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98830
    • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98830
    • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98830
    • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
    • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
  • Vidyo: compatibility (room link)
  • IRC: #webcompat
  • Agenda: sent to compatibility list before meeting
 all
Meeting summaries this wiki and Lawrence Mandel's blog all
Evangelism status arewecompatibleyet.com report all

Press & Blog Posts

Our blog posts are aggregated through Planet Web Compatibility. You will also find an history of our blog posts in the meeting minutes, check for the section "Broken Voices Of the Web"

Minutes and Progress Reports

2014
  • Monday, February 3, 2014 - (work week in Mountain View, California)
  • Monday, January 27, 2014 - Minutes
  • Monday, January 20, 2014 - Minutes
  • Monday, January 13, 2014 - Minutes
  • Monday, January 6, 2014 - Minutes



Events

We might be somewhere in the world, close to you and maybe we can find a way to help you kick start a Web Compatibility Activity in your own country. Or you want us to speak at a conference.

People

Mozilla Corporation

Project Champion
Program Management Lawrence Mandel (irc: lmandel)
Engineering Brad Lassey (irc: blassey)
Product Management Vishy Krishnamoorthy
Incoming Bug Triage Jason Smith (irc: jsmith), Aaron Train (irc: AaronMT)
QA Tony Chung, Jason Smith, Aaron Train
Analysis and Contacts Hallvord Steen (irc: hallvors), Mike Taylor (irc: miketaylr), Karl Dubost (irc: karlcow), Adam (irc: adam_s)
Dev Engagement Ali Spivak

Volunteers Leading Web Compatibility efforts

You can be part of it. Check how-to start your own local community, read the Guide, be an ambassador for the project, and take a free space down there or create a new locale if it doesn't exist yet. It's really up to you on making the Web more accessible by anyone. We can help you to start.

Activities Leader Joined on (Left)
Brazil Leo Balter October 2013
Brazil Daniel Filho October 2013
Brazil Fabricio Zuardi October 2013
Colombia Free
Germany Free
Greece Thanos Lefteris October 2013
India Abdul Rauf (irc: haseeb) October 2013
Mexico Alex Mayorga November 2013
Poland Free
Serbia Free
Spain Free
Sweden Oliver Propst January 2014
Venezuela Free
Infrastructure Seif Lotfy October 2013
Communication Kohei Yoshino October 2013

References

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