Labs/F1/Roadmap
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F1 2011 Roadmap | |
| Owner: Bryan Clark | Updated: 2011-03-29 | |
User Goals:
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Overview
Mozilla F1 is a simple and fast sharing service designed to enhance the sharing experience of the browser, Firefox, when sharing web sites.
- name
- The name F1 is a project name that is not necessarily the final name when compared with more standardized/branded names like Firefox Share.
- tech
- The project is both a hosted service and an add-on to Firefox. The hosted service acts as an OAuth proxy service which the add-on uses to push shares through.
Timeline
Here's a rough timeline of goals and the items needed to complete those goals. Items will be carried over into future date ranges as they miss their targets.
- Test Tracking Bug bug 642681
- UX Tracking Bug bug 642684
March 30
- 3 weeks left to catch the Firefox 5 train
| Item | Bug | Status | ETA |
| Agreements w/ Twitter regarding API usage | bug 645909 | in progress | - |
| Agreements w/ Facebook regarding API usage | bug 645910 | in progress | - |
| Need to fetch all Google Contacts | bug 644404 | not started | - |
April 6 all-hands @ MV
- 2 weeks left to catch the Firefox 5 train
| Item | Bug | Status | ETA |
| Sometimes FF4 jumps to 100% CPU | bug 642629 | not started | - |
| Use idle time to pull in the web UI | bug 642671 | not started | - |
April 13
- 1 week left to catch the Firefox 5 train
| Item | Bug | Status | ETA |
| - | - | - | - |
| - | - | - | - |
Problems Use Cases
These are the existing use cases that exist and we believe F1 helps to solve.
Copy & Paste
Alice finds a hilarious LOL Cat she wants to send to her friends. Now she enters the precarious world of focus, selection, and the clipboard.
Here is the only route of success (assuming no keyboard shortcuts):
- Single click into the URL bar — this should focus and select the entire URL
- Click the Edit Menu to open the menu
- Click the Copy Menu Item to copy the text to the clipboard
- Open a tab with your sharing service — either a new tab, reusing an existing tab, or using the current tab
- Focus / Open the services compose interface — compose message, what's on your mind?, what's happening, etc.
- Click the Edit Menu to open the menu
- Click the Paste Menu Item to paste the URL into the text entry
At each of these steps exists a number of ways to fail, we'll only cover a few major ones here.
- 1 focus
- with anything more than a single click into the URL bar a user will not be selecting the entire URL which will block the rest of the steps
- 2,3 selection
- when the user goes to copy the URL they risk changing the focus/selection of the URL which will block them from copying or make them copy the wrong text
- 4,5 transition
- if the user doesn't already have the service open they will now have to load the page which can be slow and systems like often are not ready for immediate sharing.
- 6,7 focus
- And finally if the user clicks anywhere else besides the text entry as they are choosing to paste there will be no notification of the failed state they entered.
NASCAR of Sharing
Beth uses Digg.com to share all her links but the LOL Cat site she likes doesn't include a "digg this" link as one of it's service.
John needs to scan through a long list of icons for various services he's never heard of to find the service he uses. Each site lists the services differently so he always needs to hunt for the service he uses.
On the other side of the coin site designers must either include all the icons of all possible (of an infinitely expanding list of) services to create a "NASCAR" effect or limit to a few popular services.