Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec 1.1+: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

*{{bug|461854}} - Need context menu UI

 

Open bugs  

 

*{{bug|460966}} - mouseover css drop down menu doesn't work with fennec, but works with iphone

== Add Copy and Paste support  ==

We should have Copy (and Paste) support in Firefox Mobile.Direct communication with other applications offers a better User Experience than Copy and Paset(it eliminates excise) But C&P would give the possibility to exchange data with applications which (currently) don't connect with Firefox Mobile. It would fit into the existing aims for having a cursor support for webpages with pannable areas or general cursor driven interaction.

Open bugs  

 

*{{bug|496654}} - let controls strip get wider, for use by add-ons

=== Awesome bar/view<br> ===

&lt;TBD&gt;<br>  

=== Tabs bar (Left side pane)<br> ===

&lt;TBD&gt;<br>  

=== Toolbar (Righ side pane)<br> ===

&lt;TBD&gt;<br>  

=== Tools and Add-ons view revisions<br>  ===

*[[Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec 1.1+/Option B for Tools and Add-ons UI|Option B for splitting the UI for searching/installing add-ons and managing installed add-ons]]: a bit more traditional approach.

 

<br> '''Proposal B for redesigning the Tools UI'''<br>

 

 

 

 

 

 

'''Description''': Session restore - the ability to pick up what you were doing before a browser restart - is a very useful feature and a signature capability of Firefox. Session restore as-is from the desktop doesn't make sense on mobile though. Simply reloading all previously open tabs doesn't make sense in a data-constrained environment, on top of which the user is more likely to be interesting in a quick transactional interaction with the browser anyway.  

Some possibilities for different approaches include  

 

Open bugs  

 

*{{bug|541421}} - Session restore functionality

'''Description''': Firefox project do make this the new autocomplete method: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Awesomeformcomplete link] - in 1.9.2  

Open bugs  

 

*{{bug|466770}} - fix content autocomplete

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'''Description''': I think the primary usecase here is just wanting a permanent off-line available copy of a webpage (so a receipt, or a boarding pass). It's probably not necessary, or very useful, to support full html+CSS+images saving out of a webpage.  

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Design proposals  

 

*Proposal 1  

**Put a "Save Page" option in the site menu (see Extended Site Menu)  

**Just treat the saved file as a download, using a default download directory rather than opening a file picker, and use Fennec's existing download system: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4351394977/ [[Image:|4351394977_d8bd245234.jpg]]]

'''Description''': Access probably to be provided through the extended site menu  

 

*{{bug|541817}} - Fennec needs find in page functionality (CTRL+F)  

*can't find the original bug

In addition to Larry, the site menu should contain options the desktop Firefox provides in the menus or elsewhere in the chrome. These options apply to content browser is displaying and can be provided by the content (such as subscription to feeds made available with link tag in the head of HTML file) or browser UI (such as Save as). The menu could contain options also for activating browser features such as "Find in page".  

*Proposal 1: [[Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec 1.1+/Extended site menu|Extended site menu]]  

**comments on this proposal:  

**the set of options should be vertically pannable once the number of options exceeds the available screen space  

**sites can offer several feeds and search providers, but we don't want each one of these to get its own slot in the menu. In both of these cases, if the site only offers a single option, then tapping the associated menu item should subscribe to it or add it, etc. If there are multiple, the menu item explain that and bring up a selector widget.  

**we have to make it visually clear that this menu is on top of the browser underneath and not another webpage (when there are enough options that it takes up the whole screen).

<br> [http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4351405309/ [[Image:|4351405309_0cf41b25c1_o.jpg]]]  

Where, if there are multiple feeds or search providers, tapping the option in the menu brings up a chooser overlay:  

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4352154856/ [[Image:|4352154856_5c61f69146.jpg]]]  

== Accommodate a virtual keyboard ==

'''Description''': full problem statement coming  

For more information, see [[Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec 1.1+/Option B for Awesome screen layout revision|Option B for Awesome screen layout revision]].<br>

 

 

 

 

For more information see[[Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/Fennec 1.1+/Awesomescreen content structure revision|Awesomescreen content structure revision]]<br>  

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*{{bug|436076}} - Certificate Management  

*{{bug|478938}} - Add ability to choose client certs

Previous UI work: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/workingUI#Client_Certificates

 

 

previous UI work: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/workingUI#Username.2FPassword

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/madhava_work/4352145250/ [[Image:|4352145250_b678e40771.jpg]]]

== Feed subscription  ==

Open bugs  

*{{bug|477714}} - Provide UI for subscription to feeds (RSS, atom, etc.)

*block popups for this site

*{{bug|456077}} - No mechanism to edit popup preferences

== Gesture Engine and UI  ==

*{{bug|476425}} - Add a Gesture Engine to Fennec

== Improve discoverability of side-areas  ==

Open bugs  

*{{bug|478037}} - allow zooming out to past the page edges so that controls are all visible

'''Description''': there is background in the planning documents for fennec 1.0 [[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/UI/Designs/TouchScreen/workingUI#Zooming here]]

On multitouch devices, pinch to zoom is the defacto standard here, and we should do the same. On non-multitouch devices, we still need some way of zooming by increment, rather than to structure.  

*{{bug|497479}} - can't do a deep zoom into a paragraph of text  

*{{bug|533560}} - Volume control does not control zoom level

== Links and fields are hard to tap ==

#tappable areas are larger than visible targets  

#increasing size based on likelihood of tapping (awesometap)  

#adjustments for capacitive screen

== Replace modal dialogs with modeless alternatives ==

== Shorter mobile-appropriate messages ==

== More helpful network error pages ==

'''Description''': Our current network error pages are unhelpful. We can help people avoid having to type out or correct URLs by doing some basic (and Places-leveraged) suggesting. See the desktop firefox project page:  

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Network_Error_Pages  

== Animated transitions ==

*{{bug|437957}} - Animate zoom

== Tab badges ==

== Ability to pick web-based helper apps ==

Only a few are actually important. Candidates:  

 

*mail  

*RSS  

*calendar

== Improved in-content theme ==

Open bugs  

== Support personas  ==

*Connection to Session Restore thinking

== Improved visibility of and access to add-ons catalog  ==

== Haptic feedback  ==

== Multitouch gestures  ==

 

 

 

 

 

*full screen standalone for webapps - no sidebars, etc. - just a system toolbar

 

 

 

== plugin-blocking / on-demand plugin activation ==

 

 

== Setting for Full screen mode<br>  ==

 

 

 

 

Fennec should provide the user with a setting for enabling/disabling the system-provided Status bar or other corresponding platform-provided functional element. The setting should be available in the browser settings.<br>