Hi Renault, Thank you for sharing your ideas. I don't speak for our UX team but hopefully I can provide some useful feedback from a technical point of view.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Renault Ferns <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey Mozilla team, > I have uploaded my ideas for Firefox os on tinypic.com as per your > request. > > Here are the links: > http://tinypic.com/r/9zyf74/6 A similar idea has been suggested before but there are no web standards to support "mini apps" like these. They're a bit like widgets, which we don't have planned for v1, but there's always the potential it could be explored in the future. > > and > http://tinypic.com/r/r25eeh/6 There are a couple of concepts touched on here. The idea of swiping your finger from the side in order to open a side tray was something which has been explored by the UX team. Unfortunately in practice it turns out not to be possible when the content you're trying to swipe away can be any content on the web. Imagine that the content on the screen is actually an HTML5 game which uses swipe gestures as part of the game play. There's no way for the system to know whether the user intended to kill a zombie, or open the side tray! This is why we've avoided using gestures like these in apps which can load arbitrary web content. The other point you touch on is having a unified multi-tasking pane for both apps and sites (browser tabs). For v1 it was decided that only web apps would appear in the task switcher and web pages loaded inside the browser would be kept separate, managed by tabs inside the browser app. It is possible to add a bookmark to the homescreen so that it opens in a special full screen wrapper and can behave a bit like an app, and appear in the task switcher with apps. This is something which could also be explored further in the future. I hope that's helpful. Ben -- Ben Francis http://tola.me.uk _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
