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==What is this?== | |||
I've gone through the alpha1 reviews looking for comment on the UI. Most of the articles describe the UI, but a bunch also offer some evaluation/assessment, some with suggestions or concerns. I've tried to pull some of these out here. | |||
==Review feedback== | |||
* http://lifehacker.com/5065863/a-closer-look-at-fennec-the-mobile-firefox-browser | * http://lifehacker.com/5065863/a-closer-look-at-fennec-the-mobile-firefox-browser | ||
** "The best mobile browsing is the kind that doesn't require too much typing or screen-tapping, and Mozilla seems to inherently grasp this." | ** "The best mobile browsing is the kind that doesn't require too much typing or screen-tapping, and Mozilla seems to inherently grasp this." | ||
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* http://www.betanews.com/article/New_Fennec_alphas_enable_mobile_Firefox_trials_on_desktop_PCs/1224619961 | * http://www.betanews.com/article/New_Fennec_alphas_enable_mobile_Firefox_trials_on_desktop_PCs/1224619961 | ||
** this one is mostly about UI, too | ** this one is mostly about UI, too | ||
** "The first surprise I discovered is that the absence of the ever-present URL is no big loss. ... On the other hand, I've found myself wondering whether the omnipresence of the Web page title is all that necessary. One problem, however, is finding a workable way to get rid of it, especially considering it also fulfills the function as Fennec's principal navigational tool." | |||
** "Having the browser's functionality features tucked away in the margins outside the page may be a necessary, if not the most obviously desirable, factor in using complex applications on a small surface. This makes using the Back button in Fennec a less-than-reflexive process; you have to slide the page to the left, reveal the button, and then tap it. At the very least, however, this is the same sequence of gestures you take every time you want to go back one page; so although it takes two steps instead of one, they're always the same two steps. That's not too bad a sacrifice, and a better way of making this simple feature work than the presently inconsistent address bar. The bookmarking button appears here too, and so far, the location seems sensible." | |||
** "Representing the functionality for multiple open tabs in miniature is a serious debacle, and Fennec's approach to this debacle has some serious problems...to which there are no obvious alternative solutions. You do have to commend Fennec's designers for treating the problem seriously, however: Since tabs are represented outside the left margin, it may be unworkable to have them be labeled using the page titles (like in a desktop browser) since that would consume too much screen space. So instead, Fennec represents open tabs with thumbnails of the pages. On a very small screen, these thumbnails can be almost indistinguishable from one another, especially in cases of pages comprised of mostly text on white backgrounds. The general geometric patterns that text boxes form in a page do not lend themselves to identification." | |||
* http://www.linux.com/feature/151153 | * http://www.linux.com/feature/151153 | ||