842231 - [Captive Portal] The wording of captive portal WiFi's status

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Askeing Yen[:askeing][:fyen]]

When connected to captive portal WiFi (before log-in), the status will show "Connected".
Base on the UX document, the status text should be "Open browser to connect".

Device:   Unagi
Gaia:     af67b0a6aa1aa7c4b09ea21b54b10ca4b74a4594
Gecko:    http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g18/rev/1afaccd266ec
BuildID   20130217070202
Version   18.0

Comment 1

[(inactive after 6/18) Alive Kuo [:alive]]

Good catch.
But I propose to drop this feature because we don't know if an AP is captive portal or not from settings app.

Comment 2

[Askeing Yen[:askeing][:fyen]]

(In reply to Alive Kuo [:alive] (Life is a struggle.) from comment #1)
> Good catch.
> But I propose to drop this feature because we don't know if an AP is captive
> portal or not from settings app.
I agree with your opinion.

Comment 3

[Askeing Yen[:askeing][:fyen]]

Hi Larissa,

Could you please provide your suggestion?

Thank you.

Comment 4

[Larissa Co [:lco]]

Hi, I've seen other mobile platforms (WP8, Android) do something similar to notify users that they must sign in, so I'm wondering why we're unable to do it. Is it just that we don't have enough time, or is it that the current design makes it impossible to do so? Knowing this will help me understand what's the right thing to do. (For example, if you tell me that we can display a notification telling the user to sign in to the browser instead of displaying a string in the Settings App, I would be ok with that design change)

In general, the reason we'd want to inform the user that they must sign in before he's actually on the network is because he might attempt to check email etc (i.e. not open up a Web browser) and thus won't see the captive portal page.

cc Bsmith because he might be able to explain this better to me!

Comment 5

[(inactive after 6/18) Alive Kuo [:alive]]

(In reply to Larissa Co [:lco] from comment #4)
 (For example, if you tell me that we can
> display a notification telling the user to sign in to the browser instead of
> displaying a string in the Settings App, I would be ok with that design
> change)

This is right. This bug is only talking about we don't change the 'status text' of Wi-Fi in settings app if it's a captive portal.
The user would either see a notification or be brought to the browser app(if he connects to an AP with captive portal manually.)

Comment 6

[Larissa Co [:lco]]

(In reply to Alive Kuo [:alive] (Life is a struggle.) from comment #5)

> This is right. This bug is only talking about we don't change the 'status
> text' of Wi-Fi in settings app if it's a captive portal.
> The user would either see a notification or be brought to the browser app(if
> he connects to an AP with captive portal manually.)

Ok. Then that's fine by me. Let's just keep the text as "Connected".