#26701 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Text and RSS Widgets Unusable on Mobile
Reported by: | celloexpressions | Owned by: | azaozz |
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Milestone: | 3.8.1 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | major | Version: | 3.8 |
Component: | Widgets | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Related: #26117.
Since Text and RSS widgets set a negative margin in order to ensure an arbitrary width (400px), they can become partially hidden at certain viewports below roughly 420px wide. The window can't be scrolled or zoomed out to access the leftmost part of the controls, which can render them completely unusable by the 320px standard smartphone viewport.
I recommend that we just let these default widgets fill the natural width of the sidebar they're in, regardless of viewport, for now. we need a better solution for 3rd party widgets eventually, perhaps removing the width
control option or allowing scrolling to view that part of the control.
Attachments (3)
Change History (11)
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11 years ago
Remove width parameter from text and RSS widget controls, so that they don't overflow and become hidden in small viewports
#3
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11 years ago
Would something like 26701.2.diff work? The problem is there are *huge* widgets added by plugins that don't scale well on very small screens. We shouldn't be breaking these on "normal" sized screens.
#4
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11 years ago
26701.2.diff works well since it retains the ideal behavior on larger devices, and should handle 3rd-party widgets well too.
#5
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11 years ago
26701.2.diff seems to do the trick quite nicely. I'd commit, but don't know if there are any particular 3rd-party widgets that should be tested first. Azaozz if you think your patch is good to go let's run with it.
Screenshot in IE10 Mobile