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The idea behind showing frecency results immediately below the URL field is an attempt to give users some awesomebar-style benefit without having to type. Part of what makes the awesomebar powerful is that, with a keyboard, typing is the fastest way for a user to quickly narrow the field of what suggestions are appropriate. On a mobile device, typing is not as easy, so there's value to offering our best guesses as to what the user is looking for before they need to type at all. | |||
(We could, alternatively, try using a list of most visited sites rather than the frequency <i>and</i> recency set). | |||
That said, once people have to start typing, we should offer awesomebar results: | |||
http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/mobile/radial2/r2_goscreen_awesomebar.png | http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/mobile/radial2/r2_goscreen_awesomebar.png | ||
When a user has entered or chosen a site to go to, and the page begins loading, we display the following: | |||
http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/mobile/radial2/r2_pageloading.png | http://people.mozilla.com/~madhava/files/mobile/radial2/r2_pageloading.png | ||
This bar fades after the page has finished loading. The user can tap on the "stop" button to cancel the page load. | |||
==Bookmarks== | ==Bookmarks== | ||
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Bookmarking works mostly the same way that it does in Firefox 3. | |||
===Bookmarks List=== | ===Bookmarks List=== | ||
Revision as of 22:25, 21 April 2008
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The idea behind showing frecency results immediately below the URL field is an attempt to give users some awesomebar-style benefit without having to type. Part of what makes the awesomebar powerful is that, with a keyboard, typing is the fastest way for a user to quickly narrow the field of what suggestions are appropriate. On a mobile device, typing is not as easy, so there's value to offering our best guesses as to what the user is looking for before they need to type at all.
(We could, alternatively, try using a list of most visited sites rather than the frequency and recency set).
That said, once people have to start typing, we should offer awesomebar results:
When a user has entered or chosen a site to go to, and the page begins loading, we display the following:
This bar fades after the page has finished loading. The user can tap on the "stop" button to cancel the page load.
Bookmarks
Bookmarking
Bookmarking works mostly the same way that it does in Firefox 3.
Bookmarks List
mockups to come
Tabs
Option 1 (horizontal scroll)
Option 2 (all on screen)
Option 3 (vertical scroll)
Tools Menu
