Mobile/ProductPlanning/Notes-2012-10-16

Details

• irc.mozilla.org #mobile for backchannel
• Mobile vidyo room
• meetings generally held on Tuesdays @ 9:00am Pacific - exceptions apply every 6 weeks
• Roadmap 2012-13 landing page
• Product Planning landing page

Agenda & Minutes

Roadmap launchpad: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Roadmap12-13

Private & Safe Browsing

• Safe browsing could be launched in Fx 18

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fx18#.5BLanded.5DSafe_Browsing

• • First mobile browser to introduce feature? How long is this window?
  • Opera and Safari both claim malware & phishingi protection of some sort
• Marketing messages: private browsing & safe browsing
  • The public would likely get confused with 'safe' browsing and 'private' browsing nomenclature
  • Desktop uses 'phishing and malware protection' when referring to this feature
  • Mobile should follow suit to be consistent with naming and to break away from what private browsing is, since they are two very different things
• Schedule for private browsing
  • per-tab private browsing is still very risky for Fx 19 and is likely a candidate for Fx 20
  • There are shared resources in implementing per-tab functionality
  • 'Global' private browsing would be quicker to implement, but is a definite worse experience on a mobile device: a user would have their browsing session closed down and then re-launched in a private mode. This is NOT deemed a good UX
  • Of note: private browsing is one of the top 3 requested features almost weekly since Fx 14 launch

Product Announcements (previously known as Android Snippets)

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fx18#Fx_for_Android_Product_Announcements
• Sec review tomorrow @ 1:00PM
• Services-side: JR Conlin is the DRI; HW reqs for Ops have been ID'd: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Roadmaps/Campaign-Manager#Speculative_Requirements
• "Schedule" is to have JR's work complete by end of Oct but elancaster needs to follow up on risk profile

Proposed Media Q4 Goals

NOT YET APPROVED

• Ship the WebRTC code for desktop on by default (not behind a pref or a config flag) in time for Firefox 20 uplift.
• Deliver a report on the viability of a basic WebRTC video call demo between two Firefox Android phones or a Firefox Android phone and a WebRTC Firefox Desktop browser, and if viable, deliver enough capability to be ready for a demo at MWC (Mobile World Congress).
• Land media platform decoding functionality for Android's Gingerbread and Honeycomb OSs in mozilla-central. One target device for each OS will be identified and agreed-upon by Media and Android to verify functionality. Success criteria: platform decoders running in Firefox will playback videos at a similar performance metric to the videos playing back in the default browser on the same phone.

Thinking Longer Term

• iOS support: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ios
  • Legal review pending
  • Initial estimates from JS team and Mobile Platform
  • Need to hammer out specific value props with Kar and ROI with Irina
  • Investigation to determine what this product could look like
• X86 support
  • Developer play
• Cross platform / multiple screens interactions
  • Using 2 or 3 devices simultaneously (gaming, interactions)
• WebRTC
  • Will try working something up for a MWC demo - stay tuned