I was skimming recent bug reports and noticed this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67340
On an iPad in landscape mode, there's *very* little vertical room between the VE toolbar and the top of the on-screen keyboard -- only about 220px of height -- and the references dropdown menu is too tall and partly disappears behind the keyboard. (Dismissing the keyboard kills focus and hides the menu; scrolling doesn't move the toolbar and menu because they're fixed to the viewport.)
There is however a lot of horizontal space... I notice that text selection menus on mobile/tablet tend to be laid out horizontally: on iOS they're a popup horizontal segmented button bar; on Android you get a context-sensitive action-bar variant at the top of the screen.
Would a horizontally-focused menu design, maybe more like a second toolbar, work better here?
-- brion
Maryana,
Have you and design already had a conversation about this? I'm eager to get Brion's question answered.
--tomasz
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
I was skimming recent bug reports and noticed this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67340
On an iPad in landscape mode, there's *very* little vertical room between the VE toolbar and the top of the on-screen keyboard -- only about 220px of height -- and the references dropdown menu is too tall and partly disappears behind the keyboard. (Dismissing the keyboard kills focus and hides the menu; scrolling doesn't move the toolbar and menu because they're fixed to the viewport.)
There is however a lot of horizontal space... I notice that text selection menus on mobile/tablet tend to be laid out horizontally: on iOS they're a popup horizontal segmented button bar; on Android you get a context-sensitive action-bar variant at the top of the screen.
Would a horizontally-focused menu design, maybe more like a second toolbar, work better here?
-- brion
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Yep, known issue on the Editing team & design's radar. Just not something we're tackling as part of the MVP for releasing VE to stable on tablets.
I'm a little out of the loop since I was out for a few days, but I believe Trevor's forthcoming (or already arrived?) window rewrite may impact this area, so we need to first see how the new inspector/toolbar implementation looks & then go from there.
On Jul 7, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
Maryana,
Have you and design already had a conversation about this? I'm eager to get Brion's question answered.
--tomasz
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote: I was skimming recent bug reports and noticed this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67340
On an iPad in landscape mode, there's *very* little vertical room between the VE toolbar and the top of the on-screen keyboard -- only about 220px of height -- and the references dropdown menu is too tall and partly disappears behind the keyboard. (Dismissing the keyboard kills focus and hides the menu; scrolling doesn't move the toolbar and menu because they're fixed to the viewport.)
There is however a lot of horizontal space... I notice that text selection menus on mobile/tablet tend to be laid out horizontally: on iOS they're a popup horizontal segmented button bar; on Android you get a context-sensitive action-bar variant at the top of the screen.
Would a horizontally-focused menu design, maybe more like a second toolbar, work better here?
-- brion
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