On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Caspy7 <cas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is the best place to post this.  If there is a
> better location, let me know.

> I've been using Firefox Share for a while now and encountered some
> issues.  Some might be considered bugs, others just UX.

> I'll start by saying that I think that Share is a phenomenal feature
> and I use it frequently.
> Perhaps many or all of these issues are on your radar, but I don't
> know so this could be a good place to surface them.

> ===
> - I see that you can now edit the description (in comparison to F1).
> When you put the focus in the description text box, it resizes to be
> larger no matter how much text is in it - one line (or no text at all)
> and it still expands.  Why is this?  Perhaps this was done to try to
> minimize noise & space?
> For me it goes from 2 lines to 4.5.  How bout just sticking it at 3 or
> 3.5 and calling it a day?

> - Part of the reason I suggest the above is because of a more serious
> issue I've encountered.  If you put focus on the description box and
> then use the mouse to click on the share button, you will fail because
> before the button click registers, the box will resize again making
> you miss your mark.
> Perhaps this is an issue that can be solved in a technical way, but
> just making text box not resize would solve the issue.
> Are we resizing so the user can see those extra few pixels of the page
> while the description box is not focused? I don't think there is a
> great expectation on the user's part to be reading or interacting with
> the page when using the share panel.

> - You may already know this, but when using the To: textbox for gmail,
> the alignment for the autocomplete dropdown menu alignment is wacky.
> For me, if I type one letter, the dropdown is to the far left of the
> box (mostly out of view) and then as I type it moves to the right more
> until its properly aligned with the box.

> - Compared with the Twitter & Facebook icons the Gmail icon looks
> pretty bad.  Looks like it may just be the gmail favico resized.
> Again, this is probably already on your radar.

> - The Gmail profile image is just a white square for me (even though I
> do have one).

> - I noticed that when receiving an email from the service the email
> identifier/sender is <em...@domain.com> (brackets included) with no
> name.  As far as I can tell F1 included the first name (not sure why
> not the last too).  But I sent myself a test message and when it
> showed up on my phone it just had the bracketed address.
> When I receive an email whose sender just has a bracketed email
> address it immediately smells of spam - it's likely a spoofed address
> sent out by some bot.
> Perhaps there is a technical reason this is the case, if so, I
> understand, but if we could include some or all of the name, I think
> that would be preferable.

> - After I shared a link (via email at least) to my brother I clicked
> the share icon again and all of the same info was still present
> (recipient, description, etc).  I was somewhat tired so I thought in
> my droned state I must have clicked away earlier and not sent it.  I
> almost sent it again, but decided to check my gmail sent folder (it
> was there).  To prevent this can we clear/reset the text fields after
> a share?
> This could also be seen as a privacy issue.  Perhaps I share something
> on the family computer and a family member comes along later and sees
> a link or description that I shared that I preferred they not see.

> - Sometimes after sharing a link, the green confirmation panel will
> display and then the original share panel will display rather than
> disappear.

> - I would prefer to be able to click the icon (or hit the shortcut
> key) and start typing the recipient (or whatever the first text box
> is).  I just tested and it seems that clicking the Share icon does not
> gain focus away from the page (keyboard navigation such as the space
> bar still affects the background page).
> A desire I shared about F1 was to be able to share as easily & quickly
> as possible.  Being able to type a recipient or (twitter description)
> and hitting tab a couple times & then <space> or <enter> is desirable
> - not needing somewhere to click with the mouse.

> - On a similar, keyboard navigating, note... In F1, the page's
> description was not editable.  (This I can understand as we don't want
> the user to feel they have any obligation to assess or edit it.)  It's
> editable now, though I'm uncertain if that's necessary.  So now it's
> showing up in the tab order.
> My thought is this. Let's downgrade it's importance to the user and
> skip it so hitting tab from the message area goes straight to the
> Share button.
> I usually don't want to change it, I just want to hit <tab> and
> <space> to send.
> My question is, can we put the share button in the tab order twice?
> Is that possible? This way one could tab from the message area and hit
> tab to the share button, but if a user clicked in the description
> area, then tabbed out, it would also go to the share button.  Put the
> description box *after* the first share button in the tab order.

> - After hitting send I find myself sitting, watching and waiting while
> the panel tells me that it's sending and was successful.  I would like
> to just get back to what I was doing.
> I'm curious why it is not functioning like F1 did, just send in the
> background (animating the icon) only letting me know if there was a
> problem sending.
> If, for some reason, that behavior is not possible, how about at least
> making the panel as short as possible so it's *mostly* out of the
> way?

> - None of the text boxes in Share have [right-click] context menus.  I
> think this can be a real usability issue for many "normal" users who
> are mousers and (perhaps completely) unfamiliar with keyboard
> shortcuts.  I personally do both and noticed it when I went to paste
> an email address the other day.

> - There are times in which the formatting of the Share box is suddenly
> all wacky.  The text box lengths suddenly get very wide (iirc?).  I
> haven't pinned down a consistent way to duplicate this but I've seen
> it a few times.  I think it often happens after I'll bring up the box,
> do something to make it go away & then bring it back again.

> - After a link is successfully shared, the (now green) box reads
> "Shared from mozilla.org to" and that's all.  The recipient service is
> absent.
> My hope is, if this confirmation box needs to be kept, that it will be
> spruced up some to look a little slicker somehow.
> ===

> Apologies if my detailed-ness is a bit much.
> Like I said before I very much like this feature and think it's quite
> valuable.  But as it stands, because of many of these issues, I feel
> that it is not ready for mass consumption (release quality).

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