700759 - Indicate users on Firefox about the OWA extension

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P4)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

We should check if a firefox user has the OWA extension installed and if not- should encourage them to have that add-on for a better experience with apps.

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Pitch text?

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

I'd come up with some text but I don't know what the better experience the add-on offers is.  ?

Comment 3

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

The pitch text is that the Add-on supports creation of Native Apps on Windows and Mac OS X; it also enables smoother integration of BrowserID for App receipt validation.

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Bill, we need a way of detecting that a user has OWA installed. Checking navigator.mozApps isn't enough obviously, so perhaps we could get OWA to set a value in localStorage for our domains (apps-, apps-preview-, apps-preview-dev-, addons-dev-, etc.) - a simple flag named `owa_installed`. And ideally the key would be removed upon uninstallation of the extension. (We did something similar for Add-on Compatibility Reporter.)

Comment 5

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

navigator.mozApps.html5Implementation will be set to true if the add-on is NOT installed and the property is undefined if the add-on is present.

Comment 6

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

Bill thought of what the behavior would be on non-Firefox browsers - in addition to checking if navigator.mozApps.html5implementation is defined a user agent check must be performed to make sure we don't offer the add-on to users who are on Chrome for example.

Comment 7

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

For Chrome users I was going to link to the Chrome extension (https://apps.mozillalabs.com/addons/chrome.html) if navigator.mozApps.html5implementation is set. That sound okay?

Comment 8

[Anant Narayanan [:anant]]

The chrome extension is deprecated and not supported at this time (the apps page will be updated to reflect that). For Chrome, or any other non-Firefox users, we should just fallback to the HTML5 implementation.

Comment 9

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

CC'ing Janet for copy. Bill Walker told me you may be able to provide some text for this. Thanks!

Comment 10

[Janet Swisher]

Where is this copy going to be displayed?

Comment 11

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/commit/92a6a71

If you don't have the "App Runtime" Firefox extension installed, a hint appears at the top of each page (until you click the X to "permanently" dismiss it). It says this:

To easily install and manage Apps in Firefox with an integrated experience, check out the experimental <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/app-runtime/?src=apps-preview">App Runtime extension</a>.

Please let me know if we need to make any tweaks to the copy.

Comment 12

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Chris Van Wiemeersch [:cvan] from comment #11)
> To easily install and manage Apps in Firefox with an integrated experience,

It actually says "a tightly integrated experience," but yeah.

Comment 13

[Janet Swisher]

Not clear what "a tightly integrated experience" is anyway. Need to use the official branding-until-we-have-branding:

"To easily install and manage apps from within Firefox, check out the Mozilla Labs App Runtime extension".

Comment 14

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

(In reply to Janet Swisher from comment #13)
> Not clear what "a tightly integrated experience" is anyway. Need to use the
> official branding-until-we-have-branding:
> 
> "To easily install and manage apps from within Firefox, check out the
> Mozilla Labs App Runtime extension".

I had stolen the copy from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/app-runtime/#addon-description

Comment 15

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

verified fixed.

Comment 16

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Attachment: post-fix screenshot