828332 - Reword email subscription strings

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::First Time Experience, defect)

Description

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

A spin-off of bug 817535.

(In reply to Staś Małolepszy :stas from comment #55)
> (In reply to Staś Małolepszy :stas from comment #47)
> > Copy-wise, I'd question the use of the exclamation mark in the success
> > message.  The error title is also very long, and I'd make it shorter and I'd
> > move some of its wording to offline-newsletter-dialog-text.
> 
> The copy guidelines also recommend to forgo ending punctuation in titles
> unless it's a question mark.
> 
> Josh, what is UX's opinion on this?
> 
> For reference, here are the strings in question:
> 
> email-successfully-added=Email successfully added!
> offline-newsletter-dialog-title=You must be connected to the Internet to
> subscribe to the newsletter.
> offline-newsletter-dialog-text=Please go back and connect to the Internet.
> invalid-email-dialog-title=Your email is not valid
> invalid-email-dialog-text=Please go back and correct your entry.

(In reply to Josh Carpenter [:jcarpenter] from comment #56)
> These strings are quite out of step with the copy guidelines (all the uses
> of "you", for starters), but there's no time to tweak for v1. Let's remove
> the exclamation point and we can revisit the rest later on.

Comment 1

[Josh Carpenter [:jcarpenter]]

Thanks for filing, Stas.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on