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Email #2: On the discoverability of Click-to-Play permissions. Let's
narrow the scope of this thread to purely discoverability issues for
now, please! <br>
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Here are the primary discoverability critiques (with variations
thereof) and the proposals for addressing them. You can also see a
more comprehensive overview on pg. 13 & 14 of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.mozilla.com/~lco/Permissions%20UI/130806%20design%20patterns-permissions%20UI.pdf">http://people.mozilla.com/~lco/Permissions%20UI/130806%20design%20patterns-permissions%20UI.pdf</a><br>
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1. The relationship between the in-content UI and the doorhanger
that appears isn't obvious<br>
- [already implemented] Animate the doorhanger when the user clicks
the in-content UI<br>
- Create a delay for clicking out of the doorhanger when it's
triggered by the in-content UI<br>
- perhaps add an icon to the doorhanger to make it more eye-catching<br>
<br>
2. When plugins are invisible (no in-content UI), it's not obvious
to the user how to enable CtP<br>
- [already implemented by <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888292">bug
888292</a>] Use an Active or Urgent colored icon for the
permission<br>
- Have the icon animate in (e.g. "flash") on page load<br>
- Have the doorhanger animate in on page load and then disappear
automatically after a few seconds<br>
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3. The relationship between the icon and the doorhanger isn't
obvious. The user might not realize that he can modify the
permission by clicking on the icon.<br>
- Make the icon Active when the doorhanger is open<br>
- when the doorhanger is closed, animate it so that it looks like
it's disappearing into the icon<br>
- add the same icon to the doorhanger to reinforce the connection <br>
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4. The persistent blue plugin icon is quite obtrusive<br>
- [already implemented by <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888292">bug
888292</a>] Only show the Active icon when all plugins are
invisible.<br>
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Next steps: After we refine this proposal on this thread, I will
file appropriate bugs for the fixes.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Larissa<br>
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