Fennec/Features/TabletUI

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Tablet UI - Keyboards & Others	Functional patches almost complete; need visual implementation; will probably be ready to land early in Firefox 8 cycle	2011-07-01	Thomas Arend

Summary

Optimizing Fennec for larger tablet devices, e.g. by adjusting UI elements, buttons, font size.

Team

• UX: Brian Dils, Madhava Enros
  
• QA: Tony Chung, Naoki Hirata, ioana.chiorean [ioanachiorean irc] [e-mail]
  
• Dev: Matt Brubeck (mbrubeck), Chris Lord (Cwiis)

Release Requirements

UX concepts and designs ready

Next Steps

• Need final visual designs.
• Finish and land patches.

Related Bugs & Dependencies

• bug 655762 - Tracking bug.
• bug 645725 (FIXED) - Don't require two taps to open non-fullscreen landscape keyboard (e.g. Xoom)
• bug 655740 (FIXED) - Make the prefs pane tablet friendly
• bug 656373 (FIXED) - Turn off Form Assistant zooming, panning and next/prev on tablets
• bug 656329 (ASSIGNED) - Use a Honeycomb-style action bar on Android tablets
• bug 664149 (ASSIGNED) - Move the app menu to the action bar in tablet mode.
• bug 653075 (NEW) - Present domain in identity box as we do with desktop

Designs

Note: These are all early design concepts, not yet final specs:

• Visual design concepts
• UI wireframes
• Slides from all-hands presentation are here

Test Plans

• Test Plan

Goals/Use Cases

• Improved user experience on tablets, especially 10-inch Android tablets.
• Fit in better with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) UI.

Non-Goals

• 100% perfect fidelity to Honeycomb widgets/conventions.

Other Documentation

• http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-3.0-highlights.html

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