Manual unavailable in a current browser

[pushcx]

The manual at https://manuals.omamix.org/2/the-omarchy-manual uses a Rails default called allow_browser that does User-Agent sniffing to try to determine if a browser is "modern". This process is unreliable, so some current and capable browsers are incorrectly blocked:

This is Firefox 141.1 on iOS, which is the same engine as iOS Safari.

Because of problems like this, the industry moved on from sniffing in 2003 with "progressive enhancement". The quickest way to fix the manual would be to delete the allow_browser line, which probably appears in app/controllers/application_controller.rb.

[dhh]

The manual uses Writebook, which uses JavaScript and CSS that depends on the latest features, so we need the gate. But it should allow FF 141.1 through.

[pushcx]

I don't have access to that app to report the bug upstream, so I don't have any next steps available to me. While there's a bit of nostalgia, I really didn't expect these bugs to come back 20 years later. Good luck!

[ryanrhughes]

Confirmed working in FF and Safari on iOS 18.5 and 26.0.

Are you on an old iOS version perhaps that's still running an older WebKit lib by chance?

[pushcx]

I have the same Firefox version you screenshot on both iPhone and iPad, "Firefox 141.1 (58972)".

I'm pretty sure the phone was on 18.5 yesterday (I follow updates closely), but when I went to check on this morning, the 'Software Update' screen in 'Settings' didn't show a version, just that 18.6 was available. I updated and the manual now loads on my phone.

So I grabbed my iPad, which I update in sync with the phone. I poked around in Settings and found (General -> About) that it's on 18.5. It is still unable to load the manual, same allow_browser error page.

I paused the automatic OS update on my iPad, I don't mind holding it on 18.5 for a bit if there's any debugging steps you have that might gather more data.