803716 - Twitter app icons are blurry

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Web Apps (PWAs), defect)

Description

[Nick Cameron [:nrc]]

Using Aurora or Nightly on a Nexus 7, I installed the Twitter app via the Marketplace. The icons for each user appear blurry compared to the native app. This ruins the first impression of the Twitter app. Not sure if we can fix this or if it is Twitter's fault, but we should look into this because we want first impressions of the most important early web app to be good!

Comment 1

[Nick Cameron [:nrc]]

Attachment: comparison of screenshots

Comparison of a few icons, I think the difference is clearest with the text of the Onion icon. The web app icons are on the left, native app on the right. I just noticed that the web app icons are larger, so maybe the blur is because of scaling up, in which case maybe Twitter can fix this, anyone got a contact there?

Comment 2

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Is this bug within the twitter web app? As in, you found this while using the twitter web app?

Comment 3

[Nick Cameron [:nrc]]

(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #2)
> Is this bug within the twitter web app? As in, you found this while using
> the twitter web app?

yes

Comment 4

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

Then, that's an actual problem with twitter in itself, not FF Android. So this isn't valid and probably not worth tracking for evangelism either.

Comment 5

[Nick Cameron [:nrc]]

(In reply to Jason Smith [:jsmith] from comment #4)
> Then, that's an actual problem with twitter in itself, not FF Android. So
> this isn't valid and probably not worth tracking for evangelism either.

I think it is worth tracking for evangelism since I imagine most people upon using the app marketplace will do exactly what I did and install the app that is most familiar - Twitter - open it, think "ooo, cool, it works" and then "hmm, something doesn't quite look right" compare to the native app and notice that it looks better, and, possibly, never install another web app as long as they live :-) Really, we need a good impression with web apps, and I suspect the Twitter app will be the first impression for most people, so if they can make the app look better simply by not scaling up the icons by 15%, then we should try and get Twitter to do that.