Firefox3.5/Messaging
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Overall
Firefox 3.5 is the browser that just keeps getting better and better. Faster, more secure, etc.
End-user
Main end-user features:
- Private browsing mode
- Awesomebar privacy options and view options
- Windows XP + Vista updates
- Performance: fastest JavaScript performance (via TraceMonkey)
Adding consumer/end-user Firefox 3.5 Launch objectives, strategies & tactics (11/11)
1. Objectives:
- Drive consumer awareness, trial and adoption of Firefox 3.5
- Position latest as superior alternative and promote browser choice
- Opportunity to promote mozilla mission vs. pure feature differentiation
2. Strategies:
- Leverage tech press and bloggers to raise awareness among core user base;
- Target new audience segment via acquisition campaign;
- Roll-out new site enhancements to drive conversion and engagement;
- Identify a key partner for consumer-facing co-marketing activity;
3. Tactics:
- Proactive PR outreach to targeted top-tier journalists /bloggers;
- Refresh SEM and online banner campaign [key message may be performance];
- Refresh online site content/elements on mozilla.com (primary download channel) and localize content into 45+ locales (tbd)
- Launch “Thank You” campaign to showcase community participation (tbd)
- Community outreach via core channels (SFx, Affiliates, Reps) and social media (Twitter, FB, Digg, Mozilla blogs)
Mozilla.com pages to be updated / refreshed include:
- Home page promo: http://www.mozilla.com [localized]
- Firefox Download page: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
- What’s new page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.4/whatsnew/
- Features page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
- Tips & Tricks: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/tips/
- Video page: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/video/
- New – video examples, updated tutorials + feature screencasts [to-do w/ Blizzard]
- Download instructions: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0.3&os=osx&lang=en-US
- First Run page: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.3/firstrun/
- Getting Started: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/
- Press Reviewer’s Guide: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/kit.html
- Press Image library: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/images.html
- Logo Guide: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/logo/
- Start Page snippet + online channels (“get it now”)on SFx, Twitter, Facebook, etc
- SUMO > update home page links + knowledge base: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+Support+Home+Page
Developers
Main features for web developers:
- Video and Audio
- Geolocation
- Worker Threads
- CSS-SVG / External resource loading
- Native JSON
- Performance improvements for JS and DOM via TraceMonkey
Page for all features: Firefox 3.5 for Developers
Beta 1
- Delivery date approx Oct 15th. Code frozen now.
- Some developer features complete, many not done yet.
- Geolocation backend questions
- How do we set up a static backend?
- Do we have any examples, other than this?
- Have to describe how this is different than geode
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8420 - install to have a static geolocation static source
- http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation
- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIGeolocationProvider
- whatismygeolocation.com to figure out what your location is
- http://www.meer.net/~dougt/gps_test.html
- http://www.meer.net/~dougt/flickr.html
- @font-face
- http://developer.mozilla.org/index.php?title=En/CSS/%40font-face
- Includes live sample
- Only from same-origin (no support for document.domain)
- Will eventually use access controls (i.e. cross-site xhr)
- Video/Audio is OGG-only
- will add more backends, might be in 3.5 but likely to wait until after.
- some unimplemented features as documented.
- http://tinyvid.tv/ as example site
- http://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/Video
- http://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML/Element/audio
- XHR Progress
- Now implement upload progress events
- http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/progress/Progress.html
- Old list of events:
- 3.0: progress, uploadprogress, load, abort, error
- 3.5: loadstart, progress, load, abort, error (uploadprogress still there but deprecated)
- all those events are fired on the XHR.upload property and fire for the uploading
- Demo of new features: http://mozilla.pettay.fi/xhr_upload/xhr_upload_demo.html
- Could do this with the old uploadprogress event, but was non-standard, gave bad data about sizes (included headers, etc) and was tricky to use for starts and stops.
- XHR cross-site access control
- http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/access-control/
- Missing support for some redirects, but will be fixed in beta2
- TraceMonkey testing via config
- http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/08/tracemonkey_javascript_lightsp.html
- Have to set the javascript.options.jit.content preferences to on.
- Where to file bugs?
Beta 2
- New stable platform for converting add-ons
- addons page for developers - need something in there first
- Worker Threads standard still shifting, only very slightly.
- http://developer.mozilla.org/web-tech/2008/09/04/web-workers-part-1/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/web-tech/2008/12/04/web-workers-part-2/
- Currently implemented in beta 2: https://wiki.mozilla.org/DOMWorkerThreads_current
- Full standard: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
- Sheppy still needs to document, trying to get info from bent + others.
- https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_DOM_workers
- l10n: Seth says that 54 languages could be participating in Beta 2.
- Video/Audio
- Seeking works now, including rough duration
- Metavid, wikipedia, other partners
- .wav files now work for <audio>
- TraceMonkey
- Private Browsing mode
- http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2008-11-04/dont-leave-trace-private-browsing-firefox
- "Diamond Ring Mode"
- Talk about other use cases (from beltzner)
- Looking for another job
- Story from Alex about b-day present being spoiled
- Shopping in general
- Kiosks, coffee nets, schools, etc.
- What's a coffee net? A cafe?
- Transliteration of the word we have for this in Persian (doh!). I guess it's called Internet cafe? Where people who don't have Internet connection sit and use the web on a pay-per-hour basis...
- What's a coffee net? A cafe?
- DNS pre-fetching
- font-face
- Don't know if we're using access control yet - ask jdagget
- Still not done on Linux.
- XHR cross-site access control
- Did redirects get fixed?
- Changes in the last couple of weeks
- Need to get a rundown
- Need some links on how to do this in php/django/other
- http://ejohn.org/blog/the-march-of-access-control/
- [1] DevMo documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTTP_Access_Control
- [2] DevMo documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Server-Side_Access_Control
- [3] Working Code Snippets: http://arunranga.com/examples/access-control/
- [4] Old DevMo documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Cross-Site_XMLHttpRequest
Beta 3
- Native JSON
- Access Control Spec
- Some changes from Jonas + Arun - need to be ironed out
- Web Workers changes
- CSS + SVG
- Offline Apps stuff for 3.5?
- Support for .otf downloadable fonts?
- media queries: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/Media_queries