On 16 November 2015 at 09:17, David Scravaglieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just to be clear. > > It’s well understood that Browser is not an app. But there is UI involved > when using the Browser. So, what I am asking for, is a status and a > specific plan for the Browser to be form factor agnostic and to not > duplicate code for every and each type of device. > FWIW on the browser item I'm not sure why we'd single out the browser chrome vs. any other part of the system UI like the status bar, task manager or notifications tray? As you say, the "browser" in Firefox OS is no longer an app, it's just one state of a window in the window manager. With the Alopex experience the browser stands to be even less like an app (there may not even be a browser icon on the homescreen). It's possible we could apply the front end/back end split to the search "app" as it stands, but it seems quite arbitrary to pick out the browser chrome part of the system UI. We need to take a more holistic look at how the whole of the system UI can be made more responsive to different form factors, and whether the new architecture for built-in apps has the same benefits when applied to the system UI (which I'm guessing probably won't use the new app format for the foreseeable future). Note that currently TV uses a completely separate browser app (which actually is a separate app from tv-system) and the same had been planned for the smart feature phone UI. We should probably address that inconsistency first and look at this as part of the wider proposed merger of the smartphone and TV system apps. Ben
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