Comments on: Firefox and Miro http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/ User Experience Design at Mozilla Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:34:32 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Mead http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16202 David Mead Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:48:36 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16202 I agree that a bookmark would not have been a good path to take. The more I've been using Miro the more I find myself thinking how can it & a browser work together. The extension seems a natural first step. Maybe offering Miro as part of the Firefox setup and letting the user decided to install and grant what degree of synchronization they want between the two applications. I agree that a bookmark would not have been a good path to take.

The more I’ve been using Miro the more I find myself thinking how can it & a browser work together. The extension seems a natural first step.

Maybe offering Miro as part of the Firefox setup and letting the user decided to install and grant what degree of synchronization they want between the two applications.

]]> By: Robert Accettura http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16173 Robert Accettura Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:00:30 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16173 I too remember bug 266457. Considering most podcasts are mp3's, so there could be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues" rel="nofollow">licensing issues</a> (unless we rely on plugins to handle it, such as Windows Media for Windows, and QT for Mac. I know in the past some have been pretty strict about ensuring compatible licensing in the tree. I too remember bug 266457.

Considering most podcasts are mp3’s, so there could be licensing issues (unless we rely on plugins to handle it, such as Windows Media for Windows, and QT for Mac. I know in the past some have been pretty strict about ensuring compatible licensing in the tree.

]]> By: Alex Faaborg http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16161 Alex Faaborg Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:11:10 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16161 <blockQuote>How many other great sites would meet that criteria</blockQuote> I'm not viewing this as a Web browser playing favorites amongst Web site, as much as one software application working in tangent with another software application. But a bookmark clearly isn't the best way to achieve that (and was just proposed in an attempt to salvage some amount of the original plan) I've updated the post to suggest the alternative idea of a featured extension for podcasting. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

How many other great sites would meet that criteria

I’m not viewing this as a Web browser playing favorites amongst Web site, as much as one software application working in tangent with another software application.

But a bookmark clearly isn’t the best way to achieve that (and was just proposed in an attempt to salvage some amount of the original plan)

I’ve updated the post to suggest the alternative idea of a featured extension for podcasting. Thanks for the feedback everyone.

]]> By: Alex Faaborg http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16156 Alex Faaborg Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:33:43 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16156 Ok, comparing this to an OEM release of windows is about as critical as you can get :p Probably the way to go is a featured extension for podcasting that has the origional functionality. Ok, comparing this to an OEM release of windows is about as critical as you can get :p Probably the way to go is a featured extension for podcasting that has the origional functionality.

]]> By: nek http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16150 nek Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:53:43 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16150 Do you remember <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266457" rel="nofollow">Bug 266457</a>? Do you remember Bug 266457?

]]> By: Justin Dolske http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16143 Justin Dolske Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:51:43 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16143 I think the original idea is great; to provide Miro (or any appropriate site) as a seeded default so that features to interoperate with 3rd parties are not useless out of the box. But as a bookmark? Yuck. Once you start hand-waving about "complementary functionality" and "great UE", then you're on a perilously slippery slope. How many other great sites would meet that criteria, and why are we not including them? Perhaps there's value in shipping with a more useful list of default bookmarks, but it's not clear to me that Miro is a compelling win for users. I think the original idea is great; to provide Miro (or any appropriate site) as a seeded default so that features to interoperate with 3rd parties are not useless out of the box.

But as a bookmark? Yuck. Once you start hand-waving about “complementary functionality” and “great UE”, then you’re on a perilously slippery slope. How many other great sites would meet that criteria, and why are we not including them?

Perhaps there’s value in shipping with a more useful list of default bookmarks, but it’s not clear to me that Miro is a compelling win for users.

]]> By: Wes http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/comment-page-1/#comment-16142 Wes Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:50:29 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/10/08/firefox-and-miro/#comment-16142 I feel like its a move in the direction of the AOL or an OEM version of Windows. What I really want when I install is a nice clean template, not something scattered with ads for video players or email clients. Vendors trying to push other products on me just screams a little to much of adware. Then again, I'm paranoid about adware. Maybe people who don't already know what podcasts are would love it. I feel like its a move in the direction of the AOL or an OEM version of Windows. What I really want when I install is a nice clean template, not something scattered with ads for video players or email clients. Vendors trying to push other products on me just screams a little to much of adware. Then again, I’m paranoid about adware. Maybe people who don’t already know what podcasts are would love it.

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