Mobile/FeatureList

This is the first draft of a feature list for Mobile Firefox.

Features

• UI modes
  • full screen
  • portrait/landscape
• mouse pointer for non-touch screen devices
• zoom
  • zoom to relevant section
  • zoom to width
  • zoom to height
  • zoom to fit page
• scrolling/panning
  • kinetic
  • normal (through keys)
  • accelerated
• security (e.g. how does the user know the site is secure?)
• tabbed browsing
• spatial navigation
  • keyboard shortcuts
• layout
  • ssr (single column display)
  • fit to width
  • fit to height
  • scrollbar-free layout
  • viewport meta tag
• breakpad for ARM
• installers for Linux (Debian?), Windows Mobile
• virtual keyboard
• text input
  • password/input manager + native integration
• low memory handlers
• start page
• basic navigation/UI design
• localization
• fonts?
• text layout (harfbuzz)
• send page/URL
• device integration through Javascript
• determine build profile (simple, basic) and what needs to be removed/added
• wow-factor
  • radical new UI

Docs

• installation tutorials
• build tutorials
• advanced features tutorials (e.g. settings)
• canned bugzilla queries (easy-to-fix, platform specific, ...)

Developer tools

• mobile firebug
  • remote debugging
• XUL simulator

Apps

• bookmarks
  • bookmark all open windows/tabs
  • bookmark "tabset" for easily restoring older sessions
• history
• update
• integration with Weave?
• URL entry
  • awesome bar
• on device search (same as awesome bar?)
  • in current window
  • in all open windows/tabs
  • in history
  • in bookmarks
• add-on manager
• password manager
• settings
  • site specific preferences
• "native" search apps?
• download manager
  • accessible through context menu on page for e.g. image, audio, video, etc.