Compatibility/UADetectionLibraries

User Agent Detection Libraries

This is a list of User Agent detection libraries to be tested for compatibility with Firefox OS and Firefox for Android. This may also include general purpose JS libraries that include some kind of UA detection.

The end goal is to contact these sites or (even better, in the case of open source libraries) provide patches so our mobile browsers are correctly identified as mobile (and not served desktop content or blocked outright).

UA strings to test with: Firefox Mobile for Android:

• Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:23.0) Gecko/23.0 Firefox/23.0

Firefox OS:

• Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

Libraries to be tested

Go

• UserAgent https://github.com/mssola/user_agent

Java

• UADetector https://github.com/before/uadetector
• User Agent Utils https://github.com/HaraldWalker/user-agent-utils

JavaScript

• Node User Agent Parse https://github.com/jujhars13/node-user-agent-parse
• Mobile Agent https://github.com/fabdrol/mobileagent
• useragent https://github.com/3rd-Eden/useragent
• isMobile https://github.com/kaimallea/isMobile
• platform.js https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js
• Express Device https://npmjs.org/package/express-device
• is-mobile https://npmjs.org/package/is-mobile (not widely used, but first result in NPM for "mobile")
• Dojo Toolkit https://github.com/dojo/ (see http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/quickstart/browser-sniffing.html)
  • Do we need to recommend a ffos or fxos token be added to the module? https://github.com/dojo/dojo/blob/master/sniff.js
• jQuery Mobile http://jquerymobile.com (FF for Android listed as A-grade support, FFOS not mentioned).
  • TODO: run tests (https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/blob/master/js/jquery.mobile.support.js)
• Mootools (https://github.com/mootools/mootools-core/blob/master/Source/Browser/Browser.js)
• Detect.js https://github.com/darcyclarke/Detect.js

Multiple Languages

• Woothee https://github.com/tagomoris/woothee
• UA Parser https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser
• http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/

Perl

• HTTP::BrowserDetect https://github.com/oalders/http-browserdetect

PHP

• Detector (Drupal) https://drupal.org/project/detector
• Mobile-Detect https://github.com/serbanghita/Mobile-Detect / http://mobiledetect.net/
• PHP Mobile Detect http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/
• PHP User Agent https://github.com/ornicar/php-user-agent
• PHP User Agent Parser https://github.com/donatj/PhpUserAgent
• PHP User Agent Parser https://bitbucket.org/hkgoldenmra/php-user-agent-parser
• Mobile Detect Bundle https://github.com/suncat2000/MobileDetectBundle
• WordPress Mobile Detect http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mobile-detect/
• Categorizr https://github.com/bjankord/Categorizr

Python

• Python User Agents https://github.com/selwin/python-user-agents
• Django Mobile https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-mobile
• minidetector https://github.com/saschwarz/minidetector/network
• GoMobile (Plone) https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gomobile.mobile

Ruby

• user-agent https://github.com/visionmedia/user-agent/network
  • note: TJ's lib is unmaintained but there appears to be a number of active forks.
• agent_orange https://github.com/kevinelliott/agent_orange
• browser https://github.com/fnando/browser
• Mobvious https://github.com/jistr/mobvious
• UserAgent https://github.com/josh/useragent

Server Modules

• Apache Mobile Filter http://www.apachemobilefilter.org/
• (NGINX has a DeviceAtlas module)
• Detect Right http://detectright.com/
• NetBiscuits http://www.netbiscuits.com/

Tested, issues reported in Bugzilla

• WPTouch (WordPress) Bug 909420
• UA.js Bug 913189

Libraries known to be compatibile

JavaScript

• YUI - http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/yui/yui-ua.html
• ua-parser-js https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js

Multiple Languages

• ua-parser (multiple languages) https://github.com/tobie/ua-parser

Server Detection Frameworks

• 51 Degrees http://51degrees.mobi/Products/DeviceDetection.aspx
• Device Atlas https://deviceatlas.com/device-data/user-agent-tester (it recognizes us as FFOS, but some of the data isn't quite accurate (says we dont support geolocation) and has some oddities like isBrowser: False (?)
• WURFL (1.4) http://tools.scientiamobile.com/?user-agent-string=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28Mobile%3B+rv%3A18.0%29+Gecko%2F18.0+Firefox%2F18.0