User agent changes in IE 11 on Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1

[Jens]

Not sure if you have already read it but it seems like MS as changed the user agent string of IE 11 on Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 to some sort of a catch-all user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 920) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537

In case of GWT that would mean IE11 will be treated as "safari" on updated windows phones and as "gecko" otherwise. Seems like a good example why we should introduce a modern permutation sooner than later in GWT and do feature checks for the remaining differences.

But at least we might need to revisit rebind rules in GWT to figure out if runtime checks introduced in the gecko permutation to support IE 11 are also executed for the safari permutation.

-- J.

[Goktug Gokdogan]

Thanks for the info.

We didn't do much change in gecko for IE11; mostly skipping workarounds specific to gecko. In general when we refactor stuff we try to provide less specific permutations.

I think best of course of action here is to do the same here and hopefully we will eventually converge. That means we need to look at it case-by-case basis and if things get complicated we can either change UserAgent selector to select gecko or introduce a IE11 permutation that fallbacks to gecko.

However regardless of what we do, I think I'll resurrect https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/c/4500/ so that people can have more options to deal with this IE11 mess without forking...

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