Quick question. I noticed the story was changed slightly on Monday and now includes:
"Decrease font size of Search Wikipedia search input text and headings on Nearby and Uploads from 18px to 16px"
The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess). We have to either keep the text size the way it is or disable zooming altogether to prevent this. So, what should we do?
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 02:03:45PM +0100, Juliusz Gonera wrote:
The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess).
Really? Does Chrome on Android not respect the 'viewport' meta tag? initial-scale=1 should ensure that it doesn't just decide to zoom as it pleases.
I know with my skin[0], which has mostly 1em size text (e.g. the browser's default), the viewport works perfectly and doesn't do any unexpected zooming, with "width=device-width, initial-scale=1". Though I've only properly tested it with virtual androids, and perhaps it wasn't with a modern Chrome for Android, I'm not sure.
By zoom I assume you mean zoom on an element and not the entire page?
The tweak was requested by Kaity when reviewing the story that added this for acceptance but I hadn't realised this was the reason it was the size it is.
Personally I would suggest optimising for look and feel than to support the Chrome browser but I have no strong preference in terms of the size we end up with. I defer to Kaity to hear her reasoning. On 9 Jan 2014 05:03, "Juliusz Gonera" jgonera@wikimedia.org wrote:
Quick question. I noticed the story was changed slightly on Monday and now includes:
"Decrease font size of Search Wikipedia search input text and headings on Nearby and Uploads from 18px to 16px"
The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess). We have to either keep the text size the way it is or disable zooming altogether to prevent this. So, what should we do?
-- Juliusz
This sounds wacky, let's take a look at it today.
On Thursday, January 9, 2014, Jon Robson wrote:
By zoom I assume you mean zoom on an element and not the entire page?
The tweak was requested by Kaity when reviewing the story that added this for acceptance but I hadn't realised this was the reason it was the size it is.
Personally I would suggest optimising for look and feel than to support the Chrome browser but I have no strong preference in terms of the size we end up with. I defer to Kaity to hear her reasoning. On 9 Jan 2014 05:03, "Juliusz Gonera" <jgonera@wikimedia.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jgonera@wikimedia.org');>> wrote:
Quick question. I noticed the story was changed slightly on Monday and now includes:
"Decrease font size of Search Wikipedia search input text and headings on Nearby and Uploads from 18px to 16px"
The text in the search input is bigger for a reason: Chrome on Android will zoom the whole page if the text is too small (too small for someone from Google I guess). We have to either keep the text size the way it is or disable zooming altogether to prevent this. So, what should we do?
-- Juliusz