On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Adam Farden <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The reality is that when 90% of smartphone users expect a back button on > their smartphones, they're going to be sorely disappointed when they try > Firefox OS for the first time. > > And I know it's true, I see it every single time I show someone. > I used Android for about a year and a half, iOS for 3 years or so, and am coming up on 2 years for Firefox OS. After this time, I have mixed feelings about Android's back button. There are some situations where it does exactly what I want, some situations where it does not do what I want, and some situations where I have no idea what it *should* do. Overall I find the feature a bit messy from both a technical and UX perspective. But it is definitely useful too. I think it's worth investigating more (for instance, check out Shing Lyu's back button add-on [1]), but I don't think it's clear yet that this is the path we should be following. Also, I like edge gestures a lot. I like them in mobile Safari's implementation (browser back button), and I even like the way mobile Chrome used to do it with browser tabs (although they killed this freature when browser tabs got promoted to app windows in the task manager). In general, I think part of the reason people like desktop web browsing so much is easy tab management (opening new ones, closing old, quick reopen with ctr-shift-T, easily switching between tabs, re-ordering, etc). I want to strive to achieve this tab management on mobile. We are not there yet as mentioned in this thread: closing tabs is a pain, edge gestures are choppy, and the order of tabs is sometimes unpredictable. But I think we are on the right path, and this thread is really helping us understand the pain points. FWIW, feedback from this thread is being discussed by the systems front end team, and some developers (like :mcav) having already expressed interest in exploring improvements. So thanks for all your comments, and keep them coming. (Also, thanks to Sam for starting it). 1.) https://github.com/shinglyu/fxos-back-button/
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