Style notifications

[let4be]

I've added notifications support for showing that user's attention required Currently it displays warning if user has no proper support for web crypto or web workers

see: https://github.com/lavab/web/blob/develop/src/index.jade#L49-49 https://github.com/lavab/web/blob/develop/src/blocks/inbox/emails.jade#L8-8

Need to design how it should look like && style this, currently it's just a draft

[let4be]

What do we have now?

Login/signup application:

and

primary application:

[vLooz]

What is web crypto and web workers and what is it used for? @let4be

[vviikk]

its a script that is available in newer versions of browsers. without it, standard javascript is used to decrypt the email. and this can sometimes take minutes for an email with a small image in it.

basically, its a warning to the user saying 'Webcrypto not found. Decrypting may take a long time.'

alternative ways of saying it: 'Lavaboom may run slowly (why?)' - and link 'why' to another page on our help site or something.

[vLooz]

Does Webcrypto comes automatically with up to date browsers or do users need to install it manually?

[let4be]

In modern browsers both should be enabled by default.

There is also a development-only case when some functions aren't available due to lavaboom is being accessed via wrong address(such as 0.0.0.0, instead of proper domain name with https support or localhost)

[let4be]

http://caniuse.com/#feat=cryptography http://caniuse.com/#feat=webworkers

[vLooz]

Ok, for those older browser, where this is not available, what can the user do to change it?

[let4be]

upgrade ;)

[vLooz]

How about this?

This bar is shown every time, when a photo needs longer than x seconds to be decrypted and the user doesn't have the newest browser version. When you hit ok, the bar disappears, but only for this specific mail. What do you think @flixi

[vviikk]

sadly, you wont be able to see that message in that position, because once the email starts decrypting without webcrypto, all other javascripts on the page stops running. you cant click on anything neither can we display or do anything - everything stops working during this state. for now, i think show a prompt with an ok button upon login would be the most ideal solution. or even during login, we can check and inform the user that the app is going to be slow, and opening emails with images can cause the browser to become unresponsive.

[vviikk]

i think it should just be an extra step after login saying

Your browser doesn't support WebCrypto Please upgrade your browser or use one of the following:

_You can still use Lavaboom. Please note that decrypting emails with images may take some time_ [Proceed] [Cancel]

[vviikk]

however we do need to show notifications. informative notifications, that don't require user interaction. such as the one you see when you save/update a contact.

[flixi]

I like the idea from @piggyslasher to include a thing right after login with the user being able to sign out if he choses to do so...

[vviikk]

then we shall just make the webcrypto notification after login.

@let4be just add the class '.navbar-text' if you wanna display notifications in the black area :) its a toolbar that auto-resizes the text.

edit but i found where you're doing the notifications now. i just need to edit /services/notifications.js ya?

[vviikk]

@let4be - can you give me an example of when this notification will be used? if we're already warning users during the login process?

[vviikk]

maybe external images

[vLooz]

These are the places, where we can show notifications. I think we should keep them consistent. Meaning: when there is a problem, regarding the whole account, we show it as early as possible in the login process. When there is a problem regarding only one specific element in an email, we show it in the email.

[let4be]

@piggyslasher I've added remove notification to your button,but now I see this:

[let4be]

also having "You server today is Darth Vader, happy mailing" over my email I find this annoying... probably we need to move this to a better place?

[vLooz]

See #384

[vviikk]

the content of the notification was just so i have something style @vLooz

@let4be let me check.

[let4be]

From my side it's finished

[vviikk]

@flixi - Boss request to move this to 2.1 because for now we have 3 kinds of notifications

• yes/no modal dialogs (try deleting a contact)
• status dialogs (try visiting lavaboom on IE9 or a browser without webworkers & webcrypto, or if you have the development branch, visit http://0.0.0.0:5000 on any browser). You can click on 'OK' to close the notification.
• status that self-dismiss themselves - try importing a public key. on success it will show you a key imported notification for 3 seconds

Other notifications that I have to style are all 2.1 in other issues (some of which Ive completed when I was working on something related).

[joergG]

@piggyslasher - how is the status here?