Popup UX on mobile

George Fletcher gffletch at aol.com
Fri Feb 13 19:38:34 UTC 2009


Is the expectation that the RP should detect the type of device and 
provide a hint to the OP? Or is the Op going to do it's own detection? 
Or does the OP expose multiple "window types" via discovery and allow 
the RP to pick?

+1 to different "window types".

Thanks,
George

Luke Shepard wrote:
> I think most popup interfaces will probably work fine on mobile, but 
> since mobile has different properties from web popups, I think it 
> still makes sense to allow RPs to specify a different mode for mobile. 
> Some of the differences:
>
> - the provider cannot resize the popup, as it can on a browser.
> - the size may be different. for example, the iphone is 320 x 480. So 
> if the standard popup width is the 450px that I think was agreed upon 
> at the summit, then that would work sort of in a horizontal view. But 
> the developer may find it more readable in a vertical view, and would 
> want to serve different content as a result.
>
> I think we should allow different window types, including “popup”, 
> “mobile”, and possibly even various sizes of mobile screens. Then, the 
> OP can at its discretion choose to offer the same interface for mobile 
> as it does for popup.
>
> On 2/13/09 9:52 AM, "Allen Tom" <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     How does everyone feel about the PuffyPoodles UX on mobile
>     devices? It seems to work nicely as-is on my iPhone. Do we just
>     want mobile devices to use the popup UX? The only issue is that it
>     might be more appropriate to do the full browser redirect to
>     display the Popup UX, rather than opening a new browser window to
>     display the popup.
>
>     I should have Draft 0 of the Popup Extension Spec ready for review
>     this afternoon.
>
>     Allen
>
>
>
>     Breno wrote:
>
>
>
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>         On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com>
>         wrote:
>
>
>             btw - clicking "Allow puffypoodles.com
>             <http://puffypoodles.com> to remember me" doesn't seem to
>             do anything. I see the popup on subsequent logins, even
>             when I checked the checkbox the previous time around.
>
>
>
>
>
>         This is a known issue with our hybrid protocol OP
>         implementation that has nothing to do with this demo.
>         Currently only plaxo.com <http://plaxo.com> uses hybrid and
>         only for onboarding, so that is a non-issue for them (the
>         second visit by their users has the 'remember me' selected and
>         it does stick then).
>
>
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>             Also, I recommend that if you implement a "remember me"
>             feature, you should tell the user how to cancel it later,
>             if the user changes their mind.
>
>
>             Allen
>
>
>
>             Breno de Medeiros wrote:
>
>
>
>                 Try unselecting the 'stay on this page' setting and
>                 let me know if the issue goes away.
>
>
>                 On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Allen Tom
>                 <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
>
>                     Breno wrote:
>
>
>
>                         No, you are not seeing the continue action, it
>                         is just that the same page is loading.
>
>
>                     Nope, it does show my email address. I do suspect
>                     its a weird caching issue, but I haven't really
>                     poked at it yet.
>
>                     Allen
>
>
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>
>                         If you pay attention, it doesn't show your
>                         email or contacts.
>
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