Hi all, The problem with swipe from the middle is that it's not a back! Right now it switches to another running application. Ah, and it's also slow, at least on my Flame.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:17 PM, eyome <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > to honest, I am against to add a back button to the home bar: I would > prefer a swippe from the middle to the right of the screen. > > I feel this elegant and really comfortable, please, considere it. It > avoids to add another button on the home bar (and I could still using "home > bar plus" add-on and his "kill app" button...). > > > Sam Giles a écrit : > > +1 > > It seems wrong to have to build navigation into web apps when the platform > has more than adequate support for it. As an app developer I dislike the > idea of having to provide my own mechanism to 'go back' to the previous > view. As a user it can be frustrating, each app implementing navigation in > a subtly different way. > > These ideas would definitely be good to try out in Alopex. > > Sam > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Wilson Page <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm in favour of this model so long as it doesn't intrude on app >> developer real-estate with extra chrome. From the early visuals we've seen >> from Alopex it appeared that the back button would live in the footer bar >> with the home button, which seems like a good solution :) >> >> It might be nice to have this button appear only when there is history >> state to navigate back to. Or perhaps when there is no history the button >> does something else, like closing the app/tab? >> >> *W I L S O N P A G E* >> >> Front-end Developer >> Firefox OS (Gaia) >> London Office >> >> Twitter: @wilsonpage >> IRC: wilsonpage >> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Michael Henretty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Gaia folk, >>> >>> In the early days of Firefox OS, we built all of Gaia as single-page >>> apps. I wasn't around then but I imagine we did this for a number of >>> reasons, with performance and responsiveness at the top of the list. As >>> part of this, we encouraged app developers to implement navigation controls >>> in their own apps and not rely on browser chrome functionality like "back" >>> and "refresh". This totally made sense in the context of a single-page app, >>> especially when you take into account that native apps on iOS and Android >>> (albeit to a lesser extent) have to implement their own navigation as well. >>> >>> But with more recent technologies like Service Workers, better caching >>> APIs, pre-rendering, etc. (basically all the stuff that NGA takes advantage >>> of), I think the web is shifting away from single-page apps as a >>> performance workaround. And let's not forget that single-page apps often >>> negate one of the webs biggest strengths: deep linking. >>> >>> So I write this email today as sort of an opinion poll. Personally, I >>> think it's time we bring back the browser chrome into Firefox OS apps. I >>> think we should encourage developers to write URL-based apps, to not be >>> afraid of browser chrome navigation, and therefore to build their Firefox >>> OS app as a standard website + some experimental (or proprietary :/) APIs. >>> >>> There has been some discussion around this with the work we are doing on >>> Pinning the Web and Alopex. But I want to hear from the greater FxOS >>> community too, especially those with app development experience. What do >>> you think, should we bring the "back" button back? >>> >>> -Michael >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-fxos mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> >> > Envoyé depuis Firefox OS > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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