Comment 11 for bug 1060888

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 <email address hidden>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.
>
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> 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.
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