[WikimediaMobile] Dropping position:fixed from the header bar?

[rupert THURNER]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 20:29, Brion Vibber <bvibber at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The floating, fixed-position header bar (header bar always at the same
> place at top of the screen while other things scroll) causes a number of
> problems in the app, including:
>
> * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32917 - It's difficult
> to tap into the search box
> * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31524 - section links on
> file pages scroll too far down
>
> My 'absolute' branch resolves this by removing the 'position: fixed'
> floating toolbar and letting it scroll off the page:
> https://github.com/brion/Wikipedia/commits/absolute
>
> This lets us drop the event handlers that screw up the search field
> focusing, because we don't need them to work around the bug where click
> events went through to the background elements. It fixes the scrolling /
> reference / hashlink issue by getting the header out of the way, so going
> to a position in the document actually shows it at the top of the screen.
>
> It also provides more screen space for reading, which is a big plus in
> portrait orientation where a toolbar eats proportionately more screen space.
>
>
> The downside is that if you've scrolled down on the page, you have to
> scroll back up to get to the search field etc.
>
> This is pretty much how the stock web browsers on iOS and Android work,
> however, so I don't think it's such an awful thing to do. Any objections?
> Preferences on making things sometimes auto-pop up?
>
>
thanks so much for removing this space waste and provide more area for the
article. android phones usually have a (hardware) search button, most of
the time a magnifier symbol. this is used for searching the phone book as
well for browsers, etc. is there any thing why you do not want to use it?

rupert
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