Metro Firefox's Front End
Metro Firefox's Front End
Reskin
Metro app
- Metro style enabled desktop browser
Classic
Metro
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
- Area
- Your device
- Car
- Your browser
- Liters
- Browser's memory footprint
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.
Tuning
metro.js
Garbage collection
CSS animation
We're a lot snappier now.
How do you test across multiple devices?
- Separate working copies.
- Patch queue.
- Sync with hg.
Version #1
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
Problem
Builds get synced on compile.
Version #2
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!