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.

Unsorted New Features

• how do we handle html select tags. For example, do we bring up a dialog showing the options, or do we keep them on the page.
• How do we handle RSS
• requirement: all UI needs to be id'd so that developers can use overlays effectively.
• Saving content (being able to Save-As for the page, the selected image, etc)
• Clipboard & selection
• Printing?
• Find
• Page Info
• Clearing Private Info (purging cache, etc.)
• Error console, Javascript console
• Update functionality
• AMO support -- what does the website have to do to support us
• Preferences window
• Popup blocking
• Certificate Management
• Proxy settings
• about: message
• visual eye-candy (need iconic love)
• EULA changes
• ReadMe ( if any )
• startup screen ( due to the slow startup time, showing something immediately might be helpful - at the very least to show progress )
• Allowing a user to change their Home page.
• Weave Synchronization
• Handheld media type attribute
• Useragent discussion - what are we?
• Autosuggestion of mobile site (suggest that a load to cnn.com goes to mobile.cnn.com)
• GPS Integration.
• tel: support
• mail link support
• ad block / image block