On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Marcus Cavanaugh wrote: > > On Sep 16, 2015, at 9:27 AM, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > > my 2c is that the orientation and reinforcement of the spatial model we get > > back presenting the current app at the center of a strip of recent apps is > > more important than optimizing for the "go back to last app" use case. > > I agree that the spatial orientation is important; my assertion is that > we can do both without compromising UX.
One other important concern to keep in mind is our anti-spoofing strategy. There needs to be a consistent way for users to understand what origin/app they're interacting with. Ideally this is the URL bar, but in the event we hide it for apps, etc., that leaves the task switcher in the position of needing to convey that information. If the task switcher is part of the anti-spoofing strategy, then it's important that it: * Make that information directly available without ambiguity. For example, the Android overlapping vertical deck-of-cards design gives all apps the same horizontal width to display app names and prioritizes them above screenshots. (Compare with our task switcher whose layout currently will tend to place most of the label off-screen and/or have it be largely occluded.) * Ensure that in the face of ambiguity of state that it can't be leveraged for an attack. Specifically, if we do decide to show the "other" app first, then exiting the task manager should switch us to that app (or the homescreen) unless the user manually scrolls back to our app. The goal would be to avoid a situation where an attacker displays a spoof of the user's bank, but manages to get the real bank site displayed as the "other" app. To be clear: I'm not saying that anti-spoofing precludes this proposal. Just that we should absolutely be talking about/and considering the spoofing ramifications. Even just saying "we're depending 100% on the URL bar being omnipresent and the source of authority about what the user is looking at" would be good since it clarifies reality and expectations. Right now the v0.7 "task manager" v2.5 UX specs I'm looking at do not seem to display or discuss showing the document origin, TLD+1, or full URL. (Which is a regression; we currently or at least very recently would also show the URL of websites.) Andrew _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
