1375827 - "Touch-enabled" display density (AKA display mode) is not available in Gmail

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P3)

Description

[Will]

Attachment: ffctedm.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170608105825

Steps to reproduce:

using a Windows device that has a touchscreen, when in Gmail in Chrome and Edge, there is a "Touch-enabled" option, but when I sign into Gmail in Firefox, the option is not there. see attached screenshot

Comment 1

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) | away [:hsinyi]]

See relative comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906034#c2 I wonder if there's anything we could do on our side, we probably should reach to google to see how we could get this feature on on firefox.

Flagging on :dees to put this on our PM's radar.

Comment 2

[Desigan Chinniah [:cyberdees] [:dees] [London - GMT]]

(In reply to Hsin-Yi Tsai (55 Regression Engineering support) [:hsinyi] from comment #1)
> See relative comment https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906034#c2
> I wonder if there's anything we could do on our side, we probably should
> reach to google to see how we could get this feature on on firefox.
> 
> Flagging on :dees to put this on our PM's radar.

Likely one for Webcompat...

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks -- usually Karl would reach out but he's on PTO for 2 weeks. Adam can you get in touch via our ML?

Comment 4

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Sure. Email sent via the partner mailing list.

Comment 5

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Thanks Adam -- looks like we need Bug 1035774 implemented before this feature will work.

Comment 6

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Also, a Gmail engineer said:

> [W]e're restricting by user-agent as well. We can look into whitelisting Firefox for touch after support for any-pointer is added.

Comment 7

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

P3 but nothing to really do in this bug.

Comment 8

[Will]

Kinda some good news about this bug: it seems as of the new Gmail design, the "Touch-enabled" option no longer exists. Maybe someone should double check with Google and if it indeed no longer exists, this bug can be closed

Comment 9

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe (:hiro)]

Closing as per comment 8.
Even if there is still the option, it should just work since bug 1035774 landed.