153666 - Form Manager Phone Number fields are too small

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect, P4)

Description

[Vicki Brown]

The fields for area code and extension in the telephone n umber areas 
are the right size to hold one digit. The fields for the Month and year of 
expiration in the credit card section, by contrast, are huge.

Maybe this is only minor, but a program that doesn't give me a 3-digit 
space for an area code makes the programmer look bad.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Confirmed.  We should consider not squeezing all those in on the same line (and
testing at 600px width!)

Comment 2

[Brant Gurganus]

At 1024 by 768, 85dpi (set in both Windows and Mozilla), I can only confirm the
latter half of this.  The area code sections look like the appropriate size.

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I assume you are referring to the dialog that you get by going: Tools > Form
Manager > Edit Form Info. Pages that have problems: Primary Contact Information
(Phone Numbers, Personal), Shipping Information (Phone), Billing Information
(Phone). 

Ugh, yucky!

This should be simple to fix.

Btw, in some places area codes can be 4 numbers, maybe even more (for example,
in Finland area can be 4 numbers in some cases).

Reassigning to new module owner.

Comment 4

[Andreas Kunz]

Attachment: proposal

This moves the two extension fields (or whatever that should mean) to the next
row which makes available horizontal space sufficient for reasonable phone
numbers with reasonable dialog sizes. I'll attach a screenshot.

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

Attachment: screenshot with patch

This is what the patch makes it look like. As you can see from the number of
digits in the fields, the dialog can even be made a lot smaller.

Comment 6

[Andreas Kunz]

Comment on attachment 139699 [details] [diff] [review]
proposal

Requesting Neil's opinion.

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: Screenshot without patch

This taken at 640x480 so I'm not quite sure what the fuss is about...

Comment 8

[Andreas Kunz]

Neil, the width of the left part of this dialog seems to depend (only) on the
font size (it's wider on your screenshot, the surce suggests: "width: 17em").

Even in your screenshot it seems like four digits won't fit properly into the
area code (Germany sometimes has four digits e.g.) and your font does not look
like the widest a user could reasonably use. Modern theme dropdowns also look a
bit wider I think.
So fields might really get a bit narrow... or maybe not, but the final decision
is yours.

Comment 9

[[e-mail]]

Well, even using Modern on a 640x480 display I can still enter an American 3-3-4
telephone number. Those of you not in the US probably need a localized content
pack to be able to enter telephone numbers on such a small screen.