Web Apps integration
Status
| Web Apps Integration to Desktop | |
| Stage | Design |
| Status | In progress |
| Release target | Firefox 12 |
| Health | OK |
| Status note | Initial requirements listed below. UX team is working integration mocks and should have these ready in the next couple weeks. Targeting Fx12 at the moment. |
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Team
| Product manager | Asa Dotzler / Chris Lee |
| Directly Responsible Individual | Lawrence Mandel |
| Lead engineer | Tim Abraldes |
| Security lead | ` |
| Privacy lead | ` |
| Localization lead | ` |
| Accessibility lead | ` |
| QA lead | ` |
| UX lead | Bryan Clark |
| Product marketing lead | ` |
| Operations lead | ` |
| Additional members | Dietrich Ayala |
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Open issues/risks
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Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
- Discovery -- through the store, personalized recommendations in the home tab, and out on the Web.
- Installation, permissions, management, and uninstall -- that users could install Apps to Firefox Home and optionally their OS default install locations, that users could set individual permissions on installation and from the App (launcher?) itself, that users could specific how Apps opened, and could uninstall from Firefox Home or the OS uninstall mechanism.
- Use and re-engagement -- that App launchers in Firefox Home could receive updates even when the App wasn't launched and that Firefox users could be gently prompted to use an App in various ways while surfing the Web.
2. Users & use cases
While Apps are cross-browser and will be able to run everywhere, Firefox users are going to have an amazing experience with Apps. Because Firefox contains a native implementation of the complete Web Runtime (WebRT) and because Firefox is already very familiar with how it is used, Firefox users will have the best experience of discovering, installing and interacting with Apps.
Alice is a Firefox 12 user. She has three paths to discovering Apps in Firefox. She can click on the Firefox App Store launcher in her Home Tab which loads the Firefox App Store in a new tab or new window (is the store itself an "App"?) and browse and search through our amazing catalog of compelling apps. She can also browse the "recommended" apps section of Home Tab which will surface a half dozen recommended apps based on her browsing history. Finally, Alice can surf around the Web and be notified by sites about the availability of their Apps.
_Requirements:_
- Firefox App Store launcher in Home Tab
- Shopping bag icon that pops up a store interface in Home Tab?
- Launch a new tab or new page?
- Firefox "Recommended Apps" section of Home Tab.
- Local compare against history/bookmarks for relevant Apps
- Mozilla promoted Apps.
- A mechanism for Web sites to offer an App.
- Automatic Firefox discovery and prompt?
- door hanger?
- infobar?
- Home Tab notification?
- other?
- Automatic site-triggered Firefox prompt
- Give sites an API to trigger browser UI they can call on pageload?
- Manual Install button on page that triggers Firefox install flow (is it even possible to offer an API that requires a user click?
Alice is in complete control of the App installation and permissions process. An App cannot be installed without her explicit request and she gets to decide what permissions to grant that app, including where that App will surface on her computer. The installation process ensures that Alice can always find and stay in control of her Apps.
3. Dependencies
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4. Requirements
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Non-goals
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Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
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Stage 3: Planning
7. Implementation plan
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8. Reviews
Security review
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Privacy review
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Localization review
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Accessibility
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Quality Assurance review
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Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
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- Installation, permissions, management, and uninstall -- that users could install Apps to Firefox Home and optionally their OS default install locations, that users could set individual permissions on installation and from the App (launcher?) itself, that users could specific how Apps opened, and could uninstall from Firefox Home or the OS uninstall mechanism.
- Use and re-engagement -- that App launchers in Firefox Home could receive updates even when the App wasn't launched and that Firefox users could be gently prompted to use an App in various ways while surfing the Web.
|Feature users and use cases=While Apps are cross-browser and will be able to run everywhere, Firefox users are going to have an amazing experience with Apps. Because Firefox contains a native implementation of the complete Web Runtime (WebRT) and because Firefox is already very familiar with how it is used, Firefox users will have the best experience of discovering, installing and interacting with Apps.
Alice is a Firefox 12 user. She has three paths to discovering Apps in Firefox. She can click on the Firefox App Store launcher in her Home Tab which loads the Firefox App Store in a new tab or new window (is the store itself an "App"?) and browse and search through our amazing catalog of compelling apps. She can also browse the "recommended" apps section of Home Tab which will surface a half dozen recommended apps based on her browsing history. Finally, Alice can surf around the Web and be notified by sites about the availability of their Apps.
_Requirements:_
- Firefox App Store launcher in Home Tab
- Shopping bag icon that pops up a store interface in Home Tab?
- Launch a new tab or new page?
- Firefox "Recommended Apps" section of Home Tab.
- Local compare against history/bookmarks for relevant Apps
- Mozilla promoted Apps.
- A mechanism for Web sites to offer an App.
- Automatic Firefox discovery and prompt?
- door hanger?
- infobar?
- Home Tab notification?
- other?
- Automatic site-triggered Firefox prompt
- Give sites an API to trigger browser UI they can call on pageload?
- Manual Install button on page that triggers Firefox install flow (is it even possible to offer an API that requires a user click?
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Feature details
| Priority | P1 |
| Rank | 7 |
| Theme / Goal | Discover |
| Roadmap | Firefox Desktop |
| Secondary roadmap | ` |
| Feature list | Desktop |
| Project | ` |
| Engineering team | ` |
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Team status notes
| status | notes | |
| Products | ` | ` |
| Engineering | ` | ` |
| Security | sec-review-needed | bsterne |
| Privacy | ` | ` |
| Localization | ` | ` |
| Accessibility | ` | ` |
| Quality assurance | ` | ` |
| User experience | ` | ` |
| Product marketing | ` | ` |
| Operations | ` | ` |
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