Augment userAgent detection

[gkatsev]

Add a userAgent detection for Chrome.
Rework detection using RegExp#test to make the checks more efficient.
Make the vjs.IS_ANDROID just check for android so that it can be used in conjunction with the firefox and chrome checks.
Fix vjs.IS_FIREFOX being a function that is used as a property by making it be a property like the other predicates.

[heff]

This is the only one that worries me, because we currently use the webkit check to make sure we only override the canPlayType function in the default android browser. Changing this would match Firefox too. We just need a solution that takes that into consideration.
https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/master/src/js/media/html5.js#L231

[gkatsev]

That if statement also checks the version of android. Firefox does not report the version of android; only Chrome for Android and the Native Android browser do. So, we could add a check there to make sure the version isn't null, since null < 3 is true.

[gkatsev]

By the way, why are we check if the version is less than 3 if it is only broken on 2.2 and lower?

[heff]

I'm assuming it's still broken in 2.3 and fixed in 3.

On May 6, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Gary Katsevman [email protected] wrote:

In src/js/lib.js:

@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ vjs.IOS_VERSION = (function(){
if (match && match[1]) { return match[1]; }
})();

-vjs.IS_ANDROID = !!vjs.USER_AGENT.match(/Android.*AppleWebKit/i);
By the way, why are we check if the version is less than 3 if it is only broken on 2.2 and lower?

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[gkatsev]

OK, just the comment and code are in disagreement. I can do a quick check and see anyway.
Do you think that checking for null there is a good compromise?

[heff]

Ah, it does say 2.2. Definitely worth checking then.

Checking for null how?

[gkatsev]

in media/html5.js, do a null check before checking the version, since firefox doesn't report report android version.

[heff]

Oh that's interesting. I didn't realize Firefox didn't report Android version. Is that true for other browsers like opera mobile too?

[gkatsev]

According to http://www.useragentstring.com/pages/Opera Mobile/, some versions do report the android version and some don't. I'll do a quick check on that as well.
Checking for webkit in the long run, isn't a good idea, since chrome is moving to Blink at some point. We might want to have a separate check for webkit or something else for older androids.

[gkatsev]

Taking the convo out of line-notes.
Android 2.3 does report the canPlayType correctly for video/mp4 and does new version of Firefox on Android 4.2. Firefox on Android 2.2 does not report canPlayType correctly (could also not be able to play, haven't check yet).

[gkatsev]

Opera does return the android version in the userAgent. However, it's return value for canPlayType is probably.
Firefox does not return the android version and has similar problems to native android browser with the return value of canPlayType.
Android 2.3 did fix the canPlayType issue, so, we should change the version number check to be < 2.3.
For future proofing, we should remove the webkit check from vjs.IS_ANDROID, what we should do instead, especially considering the canPlayType issue, I'm not sure. One suggestion I have is to add a vjs.IS_WEBKIT and then we can check

if (vjs.IS_ANDROID && vjs.IS_WEBKIT && vjs.ANDROID_VERSION < 2.3) {
  /* apply canPlayType fix */ 
}

I can't think of any other or better ways at the moment.

[heff]

Ok, thanks for doing all that research. What if we wrapped those 3 checks into an 'oldAndroid' check. I'm looking at a presentation I did and I had 3 major bugs listed:

• No touch to start
• Type attributes breaks playback
• canPlayType broken
  All of those were fixed as of v2.3. How does something like vjs.IS_OLD_ANDROID sound?

I like what you said earlier about only using user agent checks for older browsers. Having a vis.IS_WEBKIT might open the door for people to use that in places they shouldn't.

[gkatsev]

vjs.IS_OLD_ANDROID would be android, webkit, and version < 2.3?
I think that is acceptable.

[heff]

Cool, that works for me.

On May 8, 2013, at 3:29 PM, Gary Katsevman [email protected] wrote:

vjs.IS_OLD_ANDROID would be android, webkit, and version < 2.3?
I think that is acceptable.

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[gkatsev]

Ok, i'll make that change in a bit.

[gkatsev]

Looks like vjs.ANDROID_VERSION was only ever catching the major version of android (i.e., 4 from 4.2.1).
This is why the check is for vjs.ANDROID_VERSION < 3.
Looks like the only check for vjs.ANDROID_VERSION is in the media/html5.js file, so I may change it a bit.

[gkatsev]

Updated with a fix to vjs.ANDROID_VERSION and the canPlayType using vjs.IS_OLD_ANDROID.
It might be a bit weird to apply because media.html5.js is still in a file and it isn't media/html5.js