940453 - [meta] Improve the UX for error pages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

We should/could offer some helpful actions on net error pages. "Maybe you meant this instead?" (suggestions from Google if you've enabled them?) "Search for this term". "Turn on wifi".

Bug 482874 had some early work on this, but was conflated with adding support for 404 pages.

Comment 1

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Attachment: WIP

DISCLAIMER: I was playing with this a bit this weekend and threw this together. This is just me trying this out from curiosity. Not necessarily anything we want to do. Just saving the patch :)

The idea was to just have a NetErrorHelper object that (in this case) is created on page load. The error helper can add widgets to the page. I avoided inserting any JS into the page, although I'm not fully aware of the security issues here (this detects events on the browser object and then correlates them with input widgets).

This needs to be abstracted more, but adds things like "Search for", suggestions, and a wifi toggle that could either toggle wifi, or on release should probably just open wifi settings. Example screenshots:

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72157/wifi.png
http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/72157/suggest.png

build: http://people.mozilla.com/~wjohnston/neterror.apk

Comment 2

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