Metro Firefox's Front End

~~Firefox for Mobile~~
Metro Firefox

Fennec is designed for smaller screens, lower CPU & memory specs, non-qwerty keyboards and touchscreens.

Are there animations there at all?

Fennec is designed for smaller screens, lower CPU & memory specs, non-qwerty keyboards and touchscreens.

Nokia N900
256 MB physical memory
(+ swap space)

Speed on slower hardware
doesn't always indicate
speed on fast hardware.

A Metaphor

A mobile phone is like Embarcadero in SF at rush hour.

Gasoline is expensive.
There's lots of traffic
slowing you down.

You're best off with a bicycle.

A laptop is like an interstate.

Gas is cheaper.
There's less traffic, so you can make better use of your engine.

Get a real car.

metro.js
Garbage collection
CSS animation

We're a lot snappier now.

How do you test across multiple devices?

This seemed inefficient.

42
Dropbox

Link [obj]/dist into Dropbox.
Builds get synced on compile.

15:23:55 - yuan: is there any other way for you to share your front-end work? jwilde

42
Dropbox

Made some setup scripts.
Wrote documentation.

Problem
Builds get synced on compile.

Builds put in staging folder.
Synced when a deploy script is run.

Problems
File locks.
Security.

12 users.
Thank you for all of the feedback!