1169688 - [meta] Use site-specific Linked Data to enrich Firefox for Android Top Sites display

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

The Firefox OS team has built an interesting Proof of Concept around "Pinning the Web".  In theory, that work is a terrifying new vision of how we will consume the web.  In reality, I want to implement one idea that team surfaced, namely using site-specific Linked Data to reflect the site and relevant actions to users.

Firefox for Android team has wanted to make the Top Sites displays richer for a long time.  How about using <meta property="og:..."> tags to get better images?  I.e., rather than capturing screenshots, we use a site-supplied image if we can?  How about getting richer actions when tapping a Top Site that has Linked Data?

I'm opening this for discussion more than quick action.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

We've already done this for msapplication-TileImage: Bug 1014712 \o/

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

FYI, there's a toolkit module that has support for getting image metadata from the page:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/modules/PageMetadata.jsm

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.