Open YousufSSyed opened 2 years ago
Hello @YousufSSyed , not sure how you would like people to get to the landing page ? Could you illustrate a little more in details by the typical series of user action you would like to see happening for the user to get to it ?
I guess the landing page itself could be either https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2/ or https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki ..
Just my personal preference, but I don't like landing pages. I find them to be intrusive. What I do like, however, is a link in the description (and settings page, if the extension has one) for additional help. Ideally, the link is to a page on a major service like readthedocs.io, GitLab, or GitHub (but nothing owned by Google!), and not a private website.
Documentation for the extension like that would be nice.
The user wouldn't do anything to get to the landing page, I should've more specific. I don't know how it would be programmed into an extension, but I know that some extensions in the Firefox Addons store open a page as soon as you install the extension (if you ever logged onto an account on a web browser and had it sync all of your extensions, you might notice extension pages suddenly opening up). That's what I had in mind.
It might be intrusive? Such landing pages show once, and only once. If a user didn't want to read the page, they could just close the tab.
@YousufSSyed Yes, that's the typical definition of a landing page.
Although I'm all in favour of including a link for the user to manually open such a page, forced landing pages have several drawbacks:
For these reasons (plus several other less prominent reasons), I recommend never force-loading any landing pages. Providing link(s) to documentation/tips/changelogs/support is typically a more advisable solution.
But at the end of the day, it's up to @aaFn if they want to add a landing page, or a link with extension documentation.
Honestly, I think GitOffTheLawn is exaggerating the downsides of a landing page, from what I can tell they're nonexistant. Many extension in the Firefox Addons store do it, heck @aaFn don't u have any extensions that do so? Do you think it would be a problem if Bookmarks Search Plus 2 had one too?
@YousufSSyed Sorry I haven't had a chance to reply. I thought you were referring to an external "landing page". A static landing page delivered through the moz-extension
protocol resolves the second and third concerns, while only leaving the first concern (workflow interruption).
Thinking more about it, though, a readily available link is often preferable to a "landing page" because it will never interrupt workflow, plus has the advantage of beings available at all times (eliminating the user wondering "how do I find that helpful page again?"). That said, a static "landing page" that opens via the moz-extension
protocol will likely be, at worst, just a minor annoyance.
Hello gents, what do you mean by "a landing page using the moz-extension:// protocol," ? Do you mean a page shipped as part of the add-on package (inside it), and so a local page as seen from the browser ?
...what do you mean by "a landing page using the moz-extension:// protocol," ? Do you mean a page shipped as part of the add-on package (inside it), and so a local page as seen from the browser ?
Yes. BTW, if you choose to do this, you can create a link in the UI to open such a page.
@aaFn It's been a while but does what gitoffthelawn say make sense?
Hello, well, all the documentation is in the wiki on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki and I am not inclined to duplicate something in the add-on itself, so not sure what to do on this topic.
I could add maybe an internal page in the add-on activated on installation only and linking to the wiki,, however I am not sure of the value of that ... (and anyway the link is at the top of the "Details" page of BSP2 options).
By the way, I added some documentation on the §BSP2 trash and "Other Bookmarks" in https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki/Notes-on-the-BSP2-trash-and-on-the-Bookmark-history-window, related to the initial demand which started this thread.
@aaFn You could make a brief landing page linking the wiki and adding a brief note about the trash folder.
The trash folder appears in the "Other Bookmarks" folder, which is off to the side in the bookmarks toolbar, but I don't like having it there because that takes away room for my other bookmarks. Ever since the trash folder has been added to Bookmarks Search Plus 2, I would always disable it to the hide the folder. Today I found out I can hide the Other Bookmarks without disable the trash folder: by right clicking on "Other Bookmarks" and unchecking "Show Other Bookmarks."
I think there should be a way to let users know to do this, perhaps with an extension landing page. A landing page would also be good for explaining the the extension and its features.