1263707 - Favicon (tippy top) pack for mobile

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Activity Stream, defect, P3)

Description

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

To improve our favicons in product, we're looking at pre-defining a color and an icon for a list of sites that we feel would be commonly visited.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

With DLC we should have everything available to download/synchronize a favicon/color package without needing to ship app updates.

Technically I wonder how we want to map the icons to the URLs. Do we define a list of hosts that map to an icon?

Some special cases:

Special case "Wikipedia":
* en.m.wikipedia.org <-- Every language has its own host. I assume we do not want to play catch-up with wikipedia languages.

Special case "Google":
* google.com, maps.google.com, plus.google.com, mail.google.com - These are all different services and should not have the same icon.

Comment 2

[:Margaret Leibovic]

I wonder what the activity stream team is doing about this host name issue.

Maybe we should default to associate icons with a top-level domain (e.g. "wikipedia.org", "google.com"), but then allow for overrides if there are sub-domains with their own icons (e.g. "maps.google.com", "mail.google.com").

Comment 3

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

Spoke to Bryan a bit about this,

It seems like the priority is the subdomain, then the TLD. So, perhaps we can follow the same logic on mobile?

Comment 4

[Nick Chapman [:nchapman]]

We're still deciding on how to do URL patterns. We've talked about using regex for this so as to have maximum control, but we've not done any work on implementing that yet.

Comment 5

[Anthony Lam (:antlam) Find me, @antlam on Slack!]

We should put in an Aha card for this if there isn't already.

Comment 6

[Barbara Bermes [:barbara] - NI please!]

As for Aha, this probably will be delayed or covered under different products -- will keep it unprioritized for now. antlam let me know if you disagree.

Comment 7

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

All open Activity Stream bugs are moving from the whiteboard tag, "[mobileAS]", to the Firefox for Android component, "Activity Stream", so that I can keep better track of these bugs as the new triage owner; I will send out an email shortly with additional details, caveats, etc.

Comment 8

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