Mobile Web Compatibility - 2013-03-04 Minutes

Tracked Actions

• [DONE] [lmandel] Followup with WURFL
  • [lmandel] Will get this out this week
  • [lmandel] Suggested updates sent.
• [ON TRACK] [janet] Contact a ReMo partner to [(optionally) join the meeting and ] be the contact for Rep outreach
  • [lmandel] Janet exhanged e-mail with Vishy about this. In process.
• [DROPPED] [lmandel, vishy] Work with YouTube to get them to dish out HTML 5 content
  • [lmandel] Have information from Fennec and B2G teams, Vishy and I will speak with YouTube (make sure Lisa is in sync here) - Vishy will follow up with kward
  • Dropped since we found out we don't support embedded h264 content in v1
• [DONE] [lmandel] Speak with Lisa Brewster and Thomas Elin about getting access to app contacts
  • [lmandel] There is no list of contacts. Contacts are listed in Salesforce. Thomas Elin will provide any needed contact on demand via e-mail.
• [DONE] [lmandel] Email publicly (dev-platform?) the bug query for uaoverrides to get outreach support for top sites on b2g
  • [lmandel] I blogged and posted to the compatibility and dev-b2g lists and jsmith posted to dev-platform. http://lawrencemandel.com/2013/03/01/help-wanted-firefox-os-ua-detection/
• [DONE] [AaronMT] Verify bug 793216 no longer reproduces

Site Testing, Evangelism & Communication Status

• ESPN responded that they want a device in market before supporting Firefox OS (bug 828431)
  • BD handling with partner team
• Facebook now recognizes Firefox OS UA, serves touch site with no Android ads (bug 843877)
• Yelp now recognizes Firefox OS UA (bug 799884)
• dailymotion.com now recognizes Firefox OS UA (bug 827638)
• Zimbra doesn't recognize Firefox OS as mobile, lmandel filed Zimbra bug https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=80575
• qq.com HTML 5 game appears busted (bug 846682)
• Gmail parsing error no longer reproduces (bug 801433)
• maps.nokia.com needs a retest - it's probably working now given the work we've done to get working as a hosted app (bug 804756)
• Yahoo is looking into getting FF OS UA recognized (bug 826338)
  • https://twitter.com/sidharta_s/status/307615360344014850
• Bing.com outreach to support channels (bug 827622)
  • https://twitter.com/davrous/status/307580447074967553
• imdb.com outreach via feedback form (bug 827634)
• ehow.com outreach in progress (bug 843160)
• Leonard Camacho [:lcamacho] has volunteered to speak with the .ve sites on the UA override list (via lmandel's blog)
• Julien Wajsberg contacted Orange via an old colleage about orange.es
• Ben Francis reached out to his contacts at Google about GMail and Google News
• Kate Kirby contacted the author of HTTP::BrowserDetect, the perl module in use at thinkgeek.com, about recognizing Firefox OS (via lmandel's blog)
  • http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/WALSHAM/HTTP-BrowserDetect-0.99/BrowserDetect.pm
• Is this page still active/relevant? http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/mobile_ids.html
• modern.ie, new test tool from MS that shows some site compatibility issues
• t.co redirect via JS is deliberate, need to discuss alternatives with Firefox for Android team

Gecko Specific Issues

• Firefox OS h.264 support limited to Video, Gallery, and Camera apps. No h.264 support for <video> element in browser. (bug 837236#c20) Sites should use Web activity in order to sent video to the Video app (this needs some dev docs support - web activity docs btw are https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAPI/Web_Activities)
• ctalbert posted to dev-platform about UA tests https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/E20jee-xtls
• Mozilla announced initial launch locales: Brazil, Colombia, Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Venezuela - https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2013/02/firefox-os-expansion/
  • We should review Alexa top 100 sites for these locales and add UA overrides for Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, and Serbia

Other Issues (tools, general, ...)

• Gerv blogged http://blog.gerv.net/2013/03/web-standards-project-shuts-not-paying-attention/

New Action Items

• [jsmith] Retest https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=804756 to verify it's fixed now
• [lmandel] Follow up to have Firefox mobile UAs listed at http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/WALSHAM/HTTP-BrowserDetect-0.99/BrowserDetect.pm
• [lmandel] Create patch for UA overrides for Alexa top 100 site data for Hungary, Mexico, Montenegro, and Serbia