Bug 147892

Summary:	freebsd.org website switch to mobile mode for webkit browser rekonq
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Christof <christof.schulze>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	Johann Kois <jkois>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Christof 2010-06-15 23:00:02 UTC

Whenever I open freebsd.org using rekonq with the following user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; BSD Four; de-DE) AppleWebKit/532.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) rekonq Safari/532.4
then the website seems to switch to a mobile mode with the navigation on top - optimized for small displays.

I hacked rekonq to send a different user agent string and freebsd.org is then displayed correctly. This is using "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.0; Linux) KHTML/4.0.5 (like Gecko" as identification.

This behavior leads me to assume that it is a bug in the website triggered by the above user agent string.

Fix: 

fix the website/webserver. I have a patch for rekonq to enable testing, however since it is not directly relevant I am not attaching it here.
How-To-Repeat: install rekonq 0.4.0 or previously and open freebsd.org

Comment 1 Johann Kois freebsd_committer

2010-08-17 15:39:01 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->jkois

Take this one.

Comment 2 Johann Kois freebsd_committer

2010-08-17 17:35:27 UTC

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Well, I just installed rekonq 0.5.0 over the ports.  And I managed to
display the FreeBSD.org website the same way as all other browsers (so
in the correct way).

But for this I had to deactivate JavaScript support in the Webkit
preferences.  A problem in the webkit/JavasScript implemention in
rekonq?  Which is still somewhere between alpha and beta stage at the
moment, by the way.

So for the moment I do not see the need to change anything regarding the
website.  If there is a stable version some day and the problem is
indeed related to our website (which I think is not the case), then we
can re-evaluate this.

But for the moment I will close this PR.


jkois

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 Johann Kois
 jkois(at)FreeBSD.org
 FreeBSD Documentation Project
 FreeBSD German Documentation Project - https://doc.bsdgroup.de
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Comment 3 Johann Kois freebsd_committer

2010-08-18 11:04:50 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Nothing to do at the moment.  Close this PR.