711747 - scrolling physics of content area should match scrolling physics of menus and lists

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

users get a very different experience when scrolling native menus and lists like the topsites history bookmarks list than they do when scrolling web content. This makes learning to scroll the amount you want difficult. the physics of each should be as close as possible to each other.

tested latest nightly with galaxy nexus ics

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I don't think we nessesarily want to match the physics of menus and lists. Assigning to pcwalton, not sure if there is already a bug open to track that or not.

Comment 2

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

One problem here is that the physics is different on Gingerbread and ICS. The other problem is more subjective: using yank instead of force for friction makes us feel smoother than the stock browser IMHO, and I'm not sure we want to lose that advantage. That said, I believe the friction has changed since this bug was posted; please weigh in if this still feels weird.

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

It actually feels pretty good and I don't feel the jarring experience moving between ICS and the other ICS apps and Fennec. I guess you all could close this out. I do think it'd be nice to get the ends of the scroll / overscroll effect more like the rest of ICS but that may be another bug.

Comment 4

[Patrick Walton (:pcwalton)]

(In reply to Asa Dotzler [:asa] from comment #3)
> It actually feels pretty good and I don't feel the jarring experience moving
> between ICS and the other ICS apps and Fennec. I guess you all could close
> this out. I do think it'd be nice to get the ends of the scroll / overscroll
> effect more like the rest of ICS but that may be another bug.

That's bug 705246, and I agree we want that.