I updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility/Software_for_using_MediaWiki#Mobile_browsers and linked to it on Extension:MobileFrontend.

Feel free to edit and improve it. I didn't make the compatibility table as specific as the desktop one because I don't think we have all that information (when we dropped/added support for specific browsers). I assumed that reading/navigation was supported since the first release (1.15, as it was stated previously) and that we decided which modern browsers to support around 1.22.


On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Arthur Richards <arichards@wikimedia.org> wrote:
That looks like a good place to me and I like that it's not a mobile-specific page. We used to have a separate page documenting mobile browser support way back in the day, but I think it's since been deleted. It might be worthwhile to link to wherever this gets published from the Extension:MobileFrontend page.


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Where should I post this? Should I just edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Browser_support#Mobile_browsers directly?


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Juliusz, did this get posted to a wiki yet?


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Interesting. And sad. Thanks for tracking that down.



On 04/24/2014 04:34 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
From: https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/issues/29
"the new S4 stock browser is actually using a bastardized version of
Chrome Mobile, but locked at version 18.0.1025.308".

they quote the ua as:  "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.2.2; en-au;
SAMSUNG GT-I9500 Build/JDQ39) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/1.0 Chrome/18.0.1025.308 Mobie Safari/535.19"

This UA might easily be mistaken for the vanilla version of Chrome..
There might be more browsers like that. Thank you manufacterers.

DJ


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Juliusz Gonera <jgonera@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
Just a quick note: Android 2.3 and Windows Phone 7.5 (IE 9) devices have
no software upgrade path; we can only wait for them to fall out of the
market as devices get replaced. [Well technically Android 2.3 users could
run Firefox, but getting people to switch browsers on mobile is hard!

I know, but I'm not too worried about IE9. Its usage is already pretty low.
When it comes to Android 2.3 a few months ago I had an idea of showing
banners to its users suggesting that they upgrade to Firefox. I'll push more
for it so that we find some time to actually get it done. It should not be
too difficult and I'd be curious to see if it improves Firefox metrics.


I'm also a little worried to see old versions of Chrome in there; does
this mean there's a lot of people who aren't turning on updates on their
phone and are using an old version that shipped with the phone? Or is there
something else holding back updates on some devices? With Chrome and Firefox
on fast release cycles, it can be a pain to support old bugs...

I'm also not sure where this comes from. I'd wait and see if it changes in
the next few months. If it doesn't, we could investigate why Chrome Mobile
18 and not any other old version is that popular.


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