Features/Firefox/In-content UI Visual Unification

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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
  • bug 660726 - Implement breadcrumb trail for in-content UI

Risks

TBA.

Use Cases

TBA.

Designs

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)
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