Code push has happened!

[mark]

Hi all, I'm preparing to do a code push. You can see the latest code tour here: https://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/214638.html

Hang on to your hats!

Edit: The code has pushed! As always, please let us know if you see anything wonky or broken and we'll get on it!

Known Issues - Fixed 'em Maybe?

* Font size was way too small. We've tweaked them to be larger, but would welcome more feedback!
* Lack of ability to horizontally resize comment area. This has been fixed, you can drag the box horizontally again like you should be able to!
* A couple of style issues have been found and fixed.
* An issue affecting some Navigation strips has been fixed.
* An issue affecting syndicated accounts, proxied images, and a couple other worker related tasks were broken. They're better now.
* We've made some updates to the design of the comment reply form, we brought back the browse button, made the subject line full-width, and some other tweaks. Please let us know what you think!
* The RTE on the old create entry form is returned to service. A few more months, that's all we ask of you old friend...
* OpenID was broken, it's back.
* Button sizes are reset to default, we are no longer trying to make things line up. Let the ziggurat design pattern live on.
* Polls should show properly sized bars again.
* Lots more Android issues, we had to murder the unused spellcheck button to make it work out. Some weird interactions with differently sized elements and our ancient HTML.

Known Issues - Pending

* Related, some fields seem to have gone emo and are putting on heavy eyeliner (have bold, dark outlines). We're aware.

All known issues are being investigated and will be fixed! Please hang tight while we work on it :)

If you are reporting something visual, please let us know what browser/device you're on!

Comments

[doranwen]

I posted in another comment thread about this, but I'm not sure if you'd spot my comment there (it was buried pretty deep), so I thought I'd provide a screencap of the interesting new comment box I have, which is much more minor of an issue than some here, so I understand if it doesn't get tweaked or anything!

Now when I reply on a post, I get this, which looks a little odd with regards to the stuff above the actual comment box:



I'm using Firefox on Linux - and no extensions or hacks that should affect the way DW displays.

Perhaps this was intentional, in which case I will have to learn to live with it. If not, however, these are my thoughts:

I'd rather the subject line be where the icon-choosing dropdown is, and the icon-choosing dropdown go next to the Random button, because honestly, I don't have any icons that need the full length of this box to see their names, and I don't need the extra few character spaces of subject lines (which I rarely use anyway). (Also, the subject line is the same font size as here, which is not really an issue, only me being nitpicky - I just would've thought it would be a tiny bit larger.) But if there's a good reason for this to be this way, let me know and I'll understand. :)

[kaberett]

Thanks for flagging this up! Mark is pretty sure he knows what's broken; he's out and about without a keyboard at the moment, but is aiming to fix this by the end of the evening, Pacific time. Apologies for the inconvenience!

[roadrunnertwice]

It's intentional! (The only wonky part of that shot is the tall dropdown and tall "Random" button — we adjusted those sometime after you took the picture.)

What's driving this design is that the comment form HAS to be usable on mobile. During development, I tried collapsing the dropdown, buttons, and subject into two lines beside the icon, like you're describing. It didn't work very well — the icon dropdown and subject line were just illegible once you hit like two comments deep on an iPhone SE. That's fine if you don't use subjects, but a bunch of people do.

(You can open up some extra space by using symbols instead of words for the buttons, but that had some interesting engineering complexities and accessibility concerns; we're still looking at that, but it's not ready yet.)

(Why not collapse it when it's wide and then let stuff wrap down below the icon when it's too narrow? Well, we might still do that, but 1. it's tricky to get it resilient enough that it looks okay at every width, and 2. we don't want it to feel like the controls are in a different place every time you look, because that's even more annoying than it sounds. Worst case scenario would be "sometimes the dropdown is flush with the icon, and sometimes it's off to the right somewhere with one or more buttons in between.")