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Revision as of 22:48, 10 May 2016
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:
- user agent (UA) detection
- specific CSS prefixes (such as WebKit)
- specific DOM/JS/content (such as WebKit)
- 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.
- Web Compatibility 101 (@@TODO@@)
- Subscribe to Web Compatibility (Archives)
- Read the previous meetings minutes
- How to participate?
- Reporting Web sites issues
- Analyzing Web sites issues
- Contacting Web sites for solving the issues
- Ways to contribute
Projects
Web Compatibility is wide. There are many possible projects around this topics. Some are currently active, some are either would be good to do or have been actually done.
User Agent (UA) Overrides - In progress
owner: kdubost
The UA override mechanism allows B2G and Firefox Android to force mobile content by sending a custom UA to a specified domain.
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.
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.
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.
Communication
| Communication Type | Mechanism | Audience |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements | compatibility and dev-planning lists | all |
| General discussion | compatibility list | all |
| Meetings | Tuesdays 6am PT
|
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"
- Mar 1, 2013 - Lawrence Mandel: Help Wanted: Firefox OS UA Detection
- Oct 30, 2012 - Website Evangelism: Mobilizing Mozilla (Gerv Markham)
Minutes and Progress Reports
This section has been moved to Meetings.
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.
Presentations
Here we provide links to presentations about the WebCompat effort.
- https://miketaylr.com/pres/thunderplains/ by Mike Taylor
- Building for the Mobile Web by Lawrence Mandel
People
Mozilla Corporation
| Project Management | Mike Taylor (irc: miketaylr) |
| Bugs Analysis and Contacts | Hallvord Steen (irc: hallvors), Mike Taylor (irc: miketaylr), Karl Dubost (irc: karlcow), [[User:|Adam Stevenson]] (irc: adam_s) |
| Community Participation | Some people are participating on a very regular basis on both Bugzilla and Webcompat.com. New participation is welcome. |
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. The full list of countries
| Activities | Leader | Joined on (Left) |
| Brazil | Leo Balter | October 2013 |
| Brazil | Daniel Filho | October 2013 |
| Brazil | Fabricio Zuardi | October 2013 |
| Colombia | Free | |
| Germany | Sezen Günes | February 2014 |
| 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 | Leonard Camacho | October 2014 |
| Infrastructure | Seif Lotfy | October 2013 |
| Infrastructure/webcompat.com | Guillaume Demesy | May 2014 |
| Infrastructure/webcompat.com | Daniel Davis | June 2014 |
| Communication | Kohei Yoshino | October 2013 |
| UX/Design/webcompat.com | Alexa Roman | January 2014 |
References
- Firefox goes 2-digit, time to check your UA sniffing scripts
- Vendor Prefixes Are Hurting the Web
- DOM properties that pose potential compat issues
- IE srcelement bug 453968
- Gecko CSS vendo-prefix Compatibility
- Analysis of the use of vendor-specific CSS property prefixes on the web bug 708406
- Google Web fonts
- Gecko user agent string reference
- Changing the UA string
- Fennec User Agent
- Writing forward-compatible websites
- Site Evangelism Letters from previous evangelism effort
- Site feedback from input.mozilla.org
- Add device info to User-Agent bug 625238
- CoreMob (www.coremob.org): Mobile Web App Profile (from W3C)
- Firefox bug-a-thon
- QuirksMode JavaScript library poll results
- Vladimir Vukićević: Using a Caching Proxy Server for Web Demos
- bug 666041 CSS Flexbox Layout Level 3
- Web Compat job descriptions etherpad
- Gecko Improvements from Mobile Web Compat Effort