1054951 - Breakdown: Implement unified look for autocomplete dropdowns

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

Break down the implementation of the unified style for autocomplete dropdowns (defined in bug 1047354).

Autocomplete/suggestions dropdown:
http://people.mozilla.org/~mmaslaney/Search/Autocomplete-dropdown.png

Dropdown spec:
http://people.mozilla.org/~mmaslaney/Search/Autocomplete-dropdown-spec.png

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Any updates here Drew?

Comment 2

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

I just started looking at this late on Friday.

I think there are a couple of ways to go.  Right now the about:home/newtab suggestions popup is this one-off HTML implementation, while the main chrome search bar's popup is... implemented in XUL or something, I don't know -- that's part of what I'm learning for this bug.

We could convert the about:home/newtab popup to be "native" like the main search bar's.  Ideally that's how it would have been implemented to begin with.  Otherwise we have to maintain these two different suggestion implementations with interactions and styles that emulate each other.  If we don't do it now for this bug we should do it at some point -- if it's even possible, since about:home/newtab's popup is in content while the main search bar's popup is in chrome.

If we don't convert the about:home/newtab popup to be native for this bug, then this becomes two breakdown bugs, one for each type of popup.

Comment 3

[(Currently slow to respond) Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] (Firefox UX) please use needinfo]

I'm not sure what you mean by »convert to native«, but we're also currently trying to make about:newtab unprivileged (bug 776477), because not being able to use the back button to get to your tiles isn't great.

Would those two efforts interfere?

Comment 4

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Breakdown complete.

(In reply to Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] from comment #3)
> Would those two efforts interfere?

I don't think so.