Mobile/FennecRequirements

Definitions

Milestones

Our goal is to deliver several small releases over the next two quarters until we reach an alpha release. The milestones described here are not full-fledged releases but merely meant to represent dates tied together with deliverables. The dates are also meant for initial planning purposes and may change.

Milestone	Release Date	Release Notes
M1	April 4, 2008
M2	May 9, 2008
M3	May 30, 2008
M4	June 20, 2008
M5	July 11, 2008
M6	August 1, 2008
A1	August 29, 2008 - Fennec Alpha 1

Priority Definition

Status Definition

Requirements

Platform Support

General
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M?		JSctypes

Linux (GTK)			bug 436201
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1	OT	Installer	bug 418851
P2M?		Update manager
P1M?		Soft Keyboard	bug 426344
P1M?		Application menu	bug 426291
P1M?		File picker	bug 426292
P3M?		Banners (alerts)	bug 426293
P2M?		Better theme support	bug 426299
P3M?		Expose camera API
P3M?		Expose address book API
P2M?		Breakpad
P1M2		Run Talos
P1M?		DirectFB	bug 422221

Windows Mobile 6
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P2M?		Installer
P3M?		Update manager
P3M?		Breakpad

Qt 4.4
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M2		Widget support	bug 429288
P1M?		Installer
P2M?		Update manager
P2M?		Breakpad

Navigating to Web content

In most mobile browsers, basic activities like URL entry, bookmarking and search are too hard to use. These need attention, and "awesome-bar" like innovation. An equivalent to multiple windows/tabs is needed.

Basic navigation
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1	CO	Simple URL entry
P1M1	CO	Back
P1M1	CO	Forward
P1M1	CO	Reload page
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	History
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Awesome-bar URL entry
P1M2	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Search box in toolbar (depends on screen size)

Bookmarks
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Basic Add bookmark
P1M1	CO	Star page
P1M1	NS	Foldering
P?M?		Live Bookmarks

Tab support
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M3	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Tab support

Advanced Navigation
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P?M?		Search in current window
P?M?		Search in all open tabs
P?M?		Search on device
P?M?	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Download Manager
P?M?		Popup Blocker
P?M?		Page Info
P?M?		Certificate Management
P?M?		Proxy Settings
P?M?		Preferences

Navigating within a page

Fennec will enable quick and intuitive access to the content of interest on a given Web page.

Modes
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1		Standard view
P1M3		Full-screen mode
P2M3		Switch between portrait and landscape mode

Zooming
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M2		Zoom to fit page
P1M2		Zoom to fit the width of the display area
P4		Zoom to fit the height of the display area
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Zoom to relevant section

Scrolling and panning
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1	CO	Scrolling - discreet (e.g., page-up/down line up/down)
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Panning - smooth movement
P1M3	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Keyboard shortcuts
P2M3		Special effects

Layout
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P2M3		Single column display
P1M2		Fit to width
P4M3		Fit to height
P1M3	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Scrollbar-free layout
P4M3		Viewport meta tag

Navigation
P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M1		Spatial Navigation
P4M3		Virtual mouse
P?M?		Device API for input integration

Add-ons

P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P1M3		Add-on discovery
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Install
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	View installed add-ons
P1M1	style="background-color: lightblue;"	Remove add-on

Documentation

P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P?M?		Installation tutorials
P?M?		Build tutorials
P?M?		Advanved features tutorials (e.g. settings)
P?M?		Canned bugzilla queries (easy-to-fix, platform specific,...)

Communication

P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P2M3		Send link as SMS
P2M3		Send link as email

Developer tools

P/M	Status	Feature	Bug
P2M3		Mobile Firebug
P2M3		Remote debugging
P2M3		XUL simulator