348944 - Educate users about microsummaries

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Graveyard :: Microsummaries, enhancement)

Description

[Jackie Liu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060816 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060816 BonEcho/2.0b1

The first time when a user bookmarks a page containing a microsummary/live title, they should be educated in some way about what a live title (this is probably the best way to refer to it as "microsummary" sounds like jargon) is and how it works.  
Probably the most unintrusive way is to expand the "Add Bookmark" dialog and show some educational content inside it.  "Discoverability" is key because there's not really a point of having a new feature when a user doesn't even know it's there to use.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

Bug 341839? Bug 345578?

Comment 2

[Jackie Liu]

OK, Bug 345578 and Bug 341839 sound slightly similar, but I don't think this should be marked as a dupe...  Because they're mostly about notifying the user of the mere existence of a microsummary (of which I agree should be done).  This bug, on the other hand, is more about introducing the user to the feature, what's it for, how it works.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> OK, Bug 345578 and Bug 341839 sound slightly similar, but I don't think this
> should be marked as a dupe...

Agreed.  All three are different bugs, although they relate to the same issue (how to expose the functionality to users).

Comment 4

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I don't think dialogs are the proper place to be inserting "educational content." If we did that for every feature, our UI would be gigantic. This sounds more like the kind of thing that might go into the online help and "What's New" release notes.

Is there any other feature in FF that does something like this? The most similar feature, Live Bookmarks (RSS), doesn't appear to do this.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I'd rather default to live titles if one is available, but beyond that I don't want to shove this into user's faces.