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Doorhanger Notifications: Progress Update 2009-08-07

Fri, 08/07/2009 - 17:51 — matthew

My second major project this summer on the Firefox team is to implement Doorhanger Notifications. The main goals are to redesign the notification interface to address various issues and to provide a unified notification area for them to be displayed. For now you can read the wiki page for more information. Below is my progress thus far:

Current Progress

  • lots of code cleanup
  • decided how to support undo notifications and worked on API design
  • met with faaborg and dolske to talk about UI design
  • initial working prototype done

Loose threads

  • where in the UI should the doorhangers be shown? (need input from beltzner)

Next target

  • fully working version of doorhangers
  • ETA August 21, 2009
Tags: 
Mozilla
doorhangers
Firefox

Comments

Tue, 08/11/2009 - 12:01 — Robert Kaiser (not verified)

Please consider implementing this in a way that it can be placed in the status bar if wanted, this should also make it easier to use from non-browser XULRunner applications. I take for granted that this is a platform service and not a Firefox-specific one, of course.

One unfortunate thing with those "doorhanger" notification is that they hide some part of UI underneath them, while current notification bars avoid that, but I guess it's hard to do otherwise.