803512 - On Google News the toggle button to see/hide related articles is not displayed

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[Loic]

STR:
1) Open https://news.google.com/news?cf=all&ned=us&edchanged=1&ict=lbe_tw
2) Hover a news with your mouse

Result:
A toggle button with a double arrow icon should appear to see/hide the related articles.
Workaround: dom.w3c_touch_events.enabled = false

Comment 1

[Makoto Kato [:m_kato]]

google news changes UI if touch interface is changed.   Of course, this occurs on Chrome 24 w/ touch enabled.

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Joe, would you mind doing outreach here?

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Details emailed to Chris Wilson at Google

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Are there more specifics on this. Seems to work fine in nightly ?

Comment 5

[Loic]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #4)
> Seems to work fine in nightly ?

Due to bug 798821.

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Google replied with the same question I posed yesterday. Can someone provide a detailed explanation of what doesn't work as expected ?

This bug describes a mouse behavior (that appears to work) the referenced bug has to do with touch events.

Comment 7

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

This bug is reproducible in google chrome on a win8 tablet that supports touch input.

Comment 8

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: dropdown

Comment 9

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

I'm not sure if this is an issue. Removing features that belong to a mouse-hover UI when you detect touch support is a valid (and IMO sensible) choice by authors. The actual functionality is still there - just touch the header or whitespace of a topic to expand/collapse similar articles. So I don't think evangelism is required here.