Improve find-in-page

From MozillaWiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Please use "Edit with form" above to edit this page.

Status

Improve find-in-page
Stage Development
Status In progress
Release target Firefox 25
Health OK
Status note `

Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Jennifer Boriss
Lead engineer Mike de Boer
Security lead Dan Veditz
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Mihaela Velimiroviciu
UX lead Jennifer Boriss
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
Additional members Markus Stange, Adam [:hobophobe]

Open issues/risks

Q & A on shifting content (from firefox-dev)

Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Firefox's find-in-page bar has several usability problems that need to be addressed in a redesign:

Problem with Find-in-page Solution
Located at the bottom of the Firefox window, away from all other main functionality.  Yet, it's both main functionality and relates to the content on the page.  Should move to the top of the Firefox window, allowing users to easily scan down the page to see results (as they read) rather than having to scan backwards
Displays globally, on all new tabs, which means that unwanted past searches constantly stick around Should become tab-specific
"/" shortcut is too easy to trigger in error in an app where slashes are important "/" shortcut should be removed
Only shows one result at a time Find-in-page should highlight *all* matching results
Currently difficult to see where find-in-page has located a result A subtle animation/color change should indicate where results are found
Doesn't say how many results were found Should say how many results were found
Not dismissable with Esc or clicking outside to close Should be dismissable with Esc or clicking outside to close
Doesn't have match whole word option Should have match whole word option

This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

`

3. Dependencies

`

4. Requirements

A working, tested implementation that satisfies the design specification in bug 565552.

Non-goals

`

Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

`

6. User experience design

Interaction is described in bug 566489.

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

`

8. Reviews

Security review

`

Privacy review

`

Localization review

`

Accessibility

`

Quality Assurance review

`

Operations review

`

Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

bug 565552.

Related

  • Navigation and tab switching should always hide the find bar bug 628179

Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

`


Feature details

Priority Unprioritized
Rank 999
Theme / Goal `
Roadmap User Experience
Secondary roadmap `
Feature list Desktop
Project `
Engineering team Desktop front-end

Team status notes

  status notes
Products ` `
Engineering ` `
Security ` `
Privacy ` `
Localization ` `
Accessibility ` `
Quality assurance ` `
User experience ` `
Product marketing ` `
Operations ` `