On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Hans Mayer <hans.ma...@free.fr> wrote: > 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.
The physical size of the display is already taken into account for the user agent string. Typically on a M10, the browser should be using a desktop user agent. If it doesn’t then it’s a bug, feel free to report it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/webbrowser-app/+filebug (please include the log file from the app that you’ll find at /home/phablet/.cache/upstart/application-legacy-webbrowser-app-.log). You can check the default UA string on your device by browsing to e.g. http://www.whatsmyua.com/. > 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. If that really is the case, it’s lame. > On 06/01/2016 12:12 PM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Hans Mayer <hans.ma...@free.fr> 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 > > > -- > Best Regards > Hans > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
