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

[rupert THURNER]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 20:44, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>
>
just as a reference for the ones not so familiar with android development:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html was the
"android standard" way i was referring to.

rupert
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