Features/Firefox/In-content UI Visual Unification

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Features/Firefox/In-content_UI_Visual_Unification	Planning done, implementation starting	Firefox 7	Blair McBride

Summary

Do preparation work for having new in-content UI have a consistent and unified visual appearance.

Team

Who's working on this?

• Feature Manager: Blair McBride
• Lead Developer: Blair McBride
• QA: Henrik Skupin
• UX: Jennifer Boriss

Release Requirements

Relevant in-content UI is able to use the shared resources to look consistent with other in-content UI.

Next Steps & Open Issues

• Basic visual look
  • Split out relevant styles from addons manager themes
  • Adapt about:permissions to use new shared styles
• Breadcrumbs
  • Implement breadcrumbs in a way they can be used in any in-content page
  • Integrate into about:addons
  • Integrate into about:permissions
  • Investigate which other existing pages should have a breadcrumb trail, and integrate into those
    • Should error pages have a breadcrumb trail?

Related Bugs & Dependencies

• bug 658431 - Move generic page styling into separate stylesheet for reuse in other in-content UIs
• bug 658530 - Update about:permissions style to use common in-content page styles

Risks

TBA.

Use Cases

TBA.

Designs

• General in-content mockups
• Blog post on in-content UI visual unification
• Breadcrumb trail mockup

Test Plans

Breadcrumb trail should be fully testable via browser-mochitests. Visual styling can't be automatically tested, unless we get UI reftests.

Goals

Quoting from shorlander's blog post:

The goal is to create something that looks appealing, connects the variety of different types of UI, is recognizably in-content UI and can be styled per platform.

Non-Goals

• Implement other UI as in-content UI, such as preferences (long-term goal, separate project)