1124199 - Make page buttons sticky by default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect)

Description

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

According to our research, more people click the edit button, view the edit page, and submit completed edits when page buttons (edit, language, etc.) are sticky.

http://optimize.ly/~VlSVIb?token=ac6679f3bafcc4bfec70#view=2

We should make page buttons sticky by default to take advantage of this.

Comment 1

[MDN Team (:mdn-dev)]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/d9369db700f2f1e1e226b5fb57936582fe5c418c
Fix bug 1124199: Page buttons sticky by default

Our research shows that more people click the edit button, view the edit
page, and submit completed edits when the page buttons are sticky [1].

Even with this change, page buttons will only be sticky on pages with
tables of content due to bug 1124215 [2].

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.mdn/MV1rPgAfTnI/MkC1WAn9JMcJ
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1124215

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/59d36fc9ca6177c65847729face1e295cdaa1865
Merge pull request #3018 from openjck/bug-1124199-default-sticky-page-buttons

Fix bug 1124199: Page buttons sticky by default

Comment 2

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Turning these back off by default with PR 3028 [1].

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/pull/3028

Comment 3

[MDN Team (:mdn-dev)]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/4ee97f70ce180eb9b06a9f7411c881ca7c0557f1
Bug 1124199: Revert default sticky buttons

This reverts commit d9369db700f2f1e1e226b5fb57936582fe5c418c.

After turning sticky page buttons on by default, a number of bugs were
discovered. This commit turns the sticky page buttons back off by
default so that the bugs can be fixed.

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/c4a53965a1fa7444b2f5e5f2c99bf68ef4edefb8
Merge pull request #3028 from openjck/revert-default-sticky-button

Bug 1124199: Revert default sticky buttons

Comment 4

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Attachment: Mockup for sticky page buttons

So to be clear what is expected:
The page buttons should be sticky when scrolling the page but not overlap the TOC and have a white background while being fixed at the top.

The bar containing the button may even contain more information on the left like the page title and/or the breadcrumb path, as it looks quite empty otherwise.
Having info on the left it needs to be ensured that no horizontal overlapping of the buttons and the info happens, especially on smaller screens.

Sebastian

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

MDN Web Docs' bug reporting has now moved to GitHub. From now on, please file content bugs at https://github.com/mdn/sprints/issues/ and platform bugs at https://github.com/mdn/kuma/issues/.