FYI, the latest Rocket bar spec (version 0.8) is available on Box at:
https://mozilla.box.com/s/m2fomed0t1naegxg7h6t
This should hopefully give a better idea of what is being planned on how to integrate the Browser into the System for the 1.4 release. Please note, however, that the spec is not complete and is currently being rapidly iterated this week during the Systems Front End work week.
The spec certainly does not preclude having a "Browser" icon on the home screen that takes the user to a familiar browsing experience. The main implications are:
the Rocket bar should be accessible from anywhere
individual browser tabs become windows that can be managed from the Task manager
Thanks,
Francis
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Francis Djabri
UX Designer - Firefox OS
IRC - djabber
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dietrich Ayala" <
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> To:
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 3:45:17 PM
> Subject: You're not crazy - the browser really is gone.
>
> ... as a standalone application, that is.
>
> After trying to figure this "bug" out yesterday for a few hours, and then getting asked about it a few times today by people saying "have you built recently? can i see your phone?"...
>
> And then having to summarize the vision of Haida as fast as possible for them while their face scrunches up trying to go from "broken" to "awesome vision of a beautiful future" with me...
>
> A few things:
>
> * We need to get Josh up on Air Mozilla to do his presentation. Maybe at the Project Meeting? Or the MoCo meeting? Something with mass exposure in the Mozillian community.
>
> * When you make major changes, please list them all out clearly and explicitly and send to all the lists. The rocketbar email only said "hello rocketbar", not "goodbye browser". This resulted in extreme confusion - especially for platform devs who don't follow Gaia dev closely. Imagine if you'd never even heard of Haida how confusing this would be...
>
> * When you land major changes, ensure the defaults are sane and at least basically functional. I know we need early testing on new features on master - I'm 100% for doing that. But we need to do it in a way that reduces the friction on people trying to get stuff done.
>
> * Timing is everything. Removing the browser at the same time that many people are trying to fix and test 1.3 bugs (using the build defaults) is unfortunate.
>
> * There's a middle ground being worked out in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967994, until Rocketbar is functional enough to be the default!
>
> * If you find bugs, report them and make dependent on the system browser metabug (
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945259) or the rocket search metabug (
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=rocketbar-mvp).
>
> Thanks!
>
> -d
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