+1, Philipp has thought about this a lot. Also: I'm really glad we're having this conversation. We want to tackle this sooner than later. On Mar 3, 2015 6:48 PM, "Justin Dolske" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't actually think about:permissions is a good start, or that it's > implemented "most of the complicated bits." Quite the opposite, really: it > was a useful experiment, but has some serious problems. I'd briefly > summarize the two main flaws as (1) "manager" UIs are generally not great > (they provide some minimal functionality to change settings but are bad at > informing the user what's going on) and (2) it isn't a great fit for the > scopes of various things in the browser (everything from global settings to > exact-url matches, with lots of subtle variations in between), let alone > matching that to a user's mental model. > > Philipp Sackl (UX) has been poking at this for a while, and has some > interesting explorations. We can and should definitely do more here, just > not with about:permissions. :) > > Justin > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:17 AM, Frederik Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The good news is that most of the complicated bits are already >> implemented. See about:permissions. >> >> Though it operates on hostnames and not origins (bug 1066517). >> _______________________________________________ >> firefox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
