Firefox/Projects/Doorhanger notifications

Redesign notifications to address various issues with them and provide a unified action/notification area.

• Project Lead: gavin
• Project Members: faaborg (UX)

Design

See Firefox/Projects/Doorhanger_notifications/Design.

Status

Landed on trunk. Some followup issues remain.

Goals

• Design and implement a new notification system as a replacement for notification boxes, to address their current limitations

Non-Goals

• Firefox/Projects/SiteIdentity

Timeline / Milestones

Main tracking bug: bug 398776.

Sub-tasks

• Implement new notification API (popup based, allows specifying primary action button / secondary action menus)
  • Use geolocation notification as initial proof of concept consumer.
• Migrate existing notificationbox users to new API
• Styling improvements to menu-buttons (bug 509642, notification panels, etc.)

Testing

• Notification API test suite as part of initial implementation
• Backfill and updating of tests for current notifications

Related Projects

• Firefox/Projects/SiteIdentity

References

• http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/03/06/would-you-like-to-redesign-notification-in-firefox-yes-not-now-never/
• mozilla.dev.apps.firefox post: "New Notification UI"
• Test Plan
• Overview for coders (doorhanger notifications are also called "popup notifications")
• Code documentation for the popup notifications module