This feels very much like a design flaw. No site should ask on every page load, IMO.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Ken VanDine <ken.vand...@canonical.com>wrote: > If this needs to be fixed in greasemonkey, I think we have a design > flaw. The user experience of sites with native integration should be > first class, if we ever want to convince sites to integrate. IMO > greasemonkey should be just a bridge to get us over the hump and > eventually die. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of WebApps > Team, which is subscribed to WebApps: unity-chromium-extensions. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060888 > > Title: > Web app prompt appears on every single page load > > Status in Ayatana Design: > Fix Committed > Status in Chromium extension: Unity Integration: > New > Status in Firefox extension: Unity Integration: > Invalid > Status in WebApps: Websites integration Firefox plug-in: > In Progress > Status in “unity-chromium-extension” package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in “unity-firefox-extension” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > Status in “webapps-greasemonkey” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > 1. In Firefox, go to a Web site that integrates with Unity's web apps > feature. > 2. Try to scroll the page with a trackpad or mousewheel. > 3. Click a link to another page on the same site. > 4. Click the link again. > 5. Repeat steps 2~4 a few more times. > > What happens: > 1. A web app prompt appears. > 2. The prompt blocks scrolling with trackpad/mousewheel. > 3. The prompt also blocks your first attempt to click something on the > page. > 5. The prompt reappears on every single page. > > This is terrible design. Sometimes Web sites do something like this on > the first or second page you visit in a session: putting up an > advertisement or an invitation for a survey, that you can click > outside to return to the page. But if any site did that on *every* > page you visit, nobody would visit that site any more. So this is > appropriate behavior only if you don't want any non-Ubuntu Web site to > ever adopt the web apps feature. > > What should happen: either > * the prompt appears only once per site per Firefox session, or > * the prompt appears only once per site per day. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1060888/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1060888 Title: Web app prompt appears on every single page load To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1060888/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
