Kudos the team members who worked through the weekend to get this landed! :) \o/
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Benjamin Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > tl;dr: If you checkout the latest master branch you might notice that as > well as the new homescreen, Pin the Web is now turned on by default. Thank > you to everyone who has worked hard to make this happen, and especially to > Alberto, Guillaume, Chris and Michael who worked over the weekend to help > push it over the finishing line. > > > One of the most powerful features of the web is the ability to link > directly to any web page of any website and use it instantly, no > installation required. With around a billion websites and a trillion > hyperlinks the web is by far the biggest digital content ecosystem that > exists. The ability to deep link to any part of a web app is something > proprietary app platforms are still trying to catch up with. > > Pin the Web aims to leverage this unique advantage and as of yesterday the > basic MVP features enabling you to a pin any web page or website to your > device were completed. You can access this via the "Pin" option in the > browser overflow menu. Pinned pages are represented as cards on the > homescreen and if you pin a whole website it is represented as an icon. > Pinned sites have a special pinned browser chrome (like pinned tabs in > Firefox) which gets out of the way for a more app-like experience, but is > always there if you need it. You can deep link into any page of a pinned > site and get the same streamlined experience. > > This is just the beginning. Pinned pages are really just nice looking > bookmarks, but we now have the platform support we need to extract metadata > from web pages to generate a much richer representation of a page. Web > pages are not just documents, they represent news articles, photos, videos, > songs, recipes... and with the new Gaia architecture even the content of > built-in apps like contacts, events and messages will be pinnable. Smart > pinned pages will provide a richer representation of this content and could > even associate actions with it, using existing open standards. > > Pin the Web also brings basic support for the W3C web app manifest which > provides metadata about a web app. This means that you can instantly use > any one of thousands of standards-based web apps in the browser, then > optionally pin it to your device if you want to re-use it. We plan to build > on this to provide support for more manifest features and start to make web > app discovery a built-in part of the experience of the OS rather than just > a separate Marketplace app. > > Pin the Web has recently gone through initial usability testing and we've > already identified some opportunities to make improvements, but we now want > to put it in the hands of Foxfooders to find out what it's like to live > with on a daily basis. Please test it out and provide us with feedback, > either by sharing your thoughts here, by filing bugs or by reaching out to > any member of the Systems Front End team. > > Pin the Web requires the new homescreen in order to work and we've already > received feedback from a few early adopters to say that with the new > homescreen something they really miss is the app grouping feature. We hear > you loud and clear and it's a top priority for us to create a new way to > organise content on the homescreen in the next release, UX are already > working on this. > > Making Firefox OS more web-centric and content-centric is a big part of > the new Alopex UI being explored for the next phase of the project, Pin the > Web is a small step towards that same vision. > > So please go ahead and test out the new features which should be arriving > on your Foxfooding device with the next OTA update, and do provide us with > feedback. > > Keep on pinning the open web! > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > > -- Candice Serran Sr Mgr - FxOS Engineering Pgm Mgmt [email protected] irc: cserran mobile: 303.588.1101
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