Fennec/Features/TabletUI
Status
Tablet UI - Main browser layout | |
Stage | Development |
Status | In progress |
Release target | Firefox 9 |
Health | OK |
Status note | Many patches have landed or are landing soon in Firefox 9 (Nightly). |
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|Feature stage=Development |Feature status=In progress |Feature version=Firefox 9 |Feature health=OK |Feature status note=Many patches have landed or are landing soon in Firefox 9 (Nightly). }}
Team
Product manager | Thomas Arend |
Directly Responsible Individual | Mark Finkle |
Lead engineer | Matt Brubeck (mbrubeck), Chris Lord (Cwiis) |
Security lead | ` |
Privacy lead | ` |
Localization lead | ` |
Accessibility lead | ` |
QA lead | Tony Chung, Naoki Hirata |
UX lead | Brian Dils, Madhava Enros |
Product marketing lead | ` |
Operations lead | ` |
Additional members | ` |
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Open issues/risks
- Need final visual designs.
- Need to file followup bugs for remaining work.
Stage 1: Definition
1. Feature overview
Optimizing Fennec for larger tablet devices, e.g. by adjusting UI elements, buttons, font size.
2. Users & use cases
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3. Dependencies
- bug 655762 - Tracking bug.
bug 655740(FIXED for Firefox 6) - Make the prefs pane tablet friendlybug 656373(FIXED for Firefox 6) - Turn off Form Assistant zooming, panning and next/prev on tabletsbug 645725(FIXED for Firefox 7) - Don't require two taps to open non-fullscreen landscape keyboard (e.g. Xoom)bug 656329(FIXED for Firefox 8 but disabled by default) - Use a Honeycomb-style action bar on Android tablets- bug 664149 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Move the app menu to the action bar in tablet mode.
- bug 677666 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Awesomescreen should not fill the screen on tablets
- bug 681980 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Enable tablet mode by default on large-screen devices
- bug 677669 (ASSIGNED) - In tablet mode, the tab bar should be always visible and single-column
- bug 677670 (NEW) - "New tab opened" popup does not work in tablet mode
- bug 653075 (NEW) - Present domain in identity box as we do with desktop
- bug 653136 - Create a Honeycomb visual theme
- bug 679472 (ASSIGNED) - Make Fennecomb Action Bar pretty
- bug 680077 (ASSIGNED) - Make fennecomb tab menu pretty
- bug 680212 (ASSIGNED) - Make fennecomb awesomebar pretty
- bug 680441 - Make app menu pretty
- bug 681643 - Make dialogs pretty
- bug 681650 - Make site identity menu pretty
- bug 682412 - Make the control panels pretty
See also the complete dependency tree.
4. Requirements
- 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.
Stage 2: Design
5. Functional specification
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6. User experience design
Current designs:
Older ideas and presentations:
- UI wireframes -- Read image captions in Flickr for more details
- Visual design concepts
- Slides from all-hands presentation are here
- 2011-07-21: Tab concepts
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
Operations review
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Stage 4: Development
9. Implementation
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Stage 5: Release
10. Landing criteria
` {{#set:Feature open issues and risks=* Need final visual designs.
- Need to file followup bugs for remaining work.
|Feature overview=Optimizing Fennec for larger tablet devices, e.g. by adjusting UI elements, buttons, font size. |Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=* bug 655762 - Tracking bug.
bug 655740(FIXED for Firefox 6) - Make the prefs pane tablet friendlybug 656373(FIXED for Firefox 6) - Turn off Form Assistant zooming, panning and next/prev on tabletsbug 645725(FIXED for Firefox 7) - Don't require two taps to open non-fullscreen landscape keyboard (e.g. Xoom)bug 656329(FIXED for Firefox 8 but disabled by default) - Use a Honeycomb-style action bar on Android tablets- bug 664149 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Move the app menu to the action bar in tablet mode.
- bug 677666 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Awesomescreen should not fill the screen on tablets
- bug 681980 (FIXED for Firefox 9) - Enable tablet mode by default on large-screen devices
- bug 677669 (ASSIGNED) - In tablet mode, the tab bar should be always visible and single-column
- bug 677670 (NEW) - "New tab opened" popup does not work in tablet mode
- bug 653075 (NEW) - Present domain in identity box as we do with desktop
- bug 653136 - Create a Honeycomb visual theme
- bug 679472 (ASSIGNED) - Make Fennecomb Action Bar pretty
- bug 680077 (ASSIGNED) - Make fennecomb tab menu pretty
- bug 680212 (ASSIGNED) - Make fennecomb awesomebar pretty
- bug 680441 - Make app menu pretty
- bug 681643 - Make dialogs pretty
- bug 681650 - Make site identity menu pretty
- bug 682412 - Make the control panels pretty
See also the complete dependency tree. |Feature requirements=* Improved user experience on tablets, especially 10-inch Android tablets.
- Fit in better with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) UI.
|Feature non-goals=* 100% perfect fidelity to Honeycomb widgets/conventions. |Feature functional spec=` |Feature ux design=Current designs:
Older ideas and presentations:
- UI wireframes -- Read image captions in Flickr for more details
- Visual design concepts
- Slides from all-hands presentation are here
- 2011-07-21: Tab concepts
|Feature implementation plan=` |Feature security review=` |Feature privacy review=` |Feature localization review=` |Feature accessibility review=` |Feature qa review=* Test Plan |Feature operations review=` |Feature implementation notes=` |Feature landing criteria=` }}
Feature details
Priority | P1 |
Rank | 999 |
Theme / Goal | ` |
Roadmap | Firefox Mobile |
Secondary roadmap | ` |
Feature list | Mobile |
Project | ` |
Engineering team | Mobile front-end |
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Team status notes
status | notes | |
Products | ` | ` |
Engineering | ` | ` |
Security | pass | ` |
Privacy | ` | ` |
Localization | ` | ` |
Accessibility | ` | ` |
Quality assurance | ` | ` |
User experience | ` | ` |
Product marketing | ` | ` |
Operations | ` | ` |
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