1856191 - don't restrict the sidebar width so much (to better support non-English locales)

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Firefox View, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Sören Hentzschel]

Attachment: screenshot (German)

The sidebar of Firefox View Next has a fixed width. While it works for English, it causes in some languages that some categories will be on one line and others on two lines. I think it would look better if every category could fit into one line, like in English. And since there is a very, very large gap between the sidebar and the main content, it doesn't seem to be necessary to restrict the sidebar width so much.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I understand why this was filed as an enhancement but I think having it be a defect is more likely to get it triaged, and I think the clunky German rendering is arguably just a defect as-is.

Comment 2

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

This likely means the sidebar won't work with increased text sizes, so triaging as a11y s2 accordingly.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is set to S4. However, the accessibility severity is higher, .
:kcochrane, could you consider increasing the severity?

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Comment 4

[Kelly Cochrane [:kcochrane]]

(In reply to Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan] from comment #2)

This likely means the sidebar won't work with increased text sizes, so triaging as a11y s2 accordingly.

Hmm why do we think that :morgan? Whenever I try increasing the text size, the sidebar still works fine, it just wraps text in the buttons to new line(s).

Comment 5

[Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan]]

(In reply to Kelly Cochrane [:kcochrane] from comment #4)

(In reply to Morgan Reschenberg [:morgan] from comment #2)

This likely means the sidebar won't work with increased text sizes, so triaging as a11y s2 accordingly.

Hmm why do we think that :morgan? Whenever I try increasing the text size, the sidebar still works fine, it just wraps text in the buttons to new line(s).

Hmm, I thought that was the issue described here -- that the text splits to multiple lines when it should stay on a single line for presentation reasons. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the bug

Comment 6

[Kelly Cochrane [:kcochrane]]

:morgan the text breaks to multiple lines by design, we just initially only made it wide enough to accommodate English translations.

After speaking with the UX team, they'd like to increase the max-width of the sidebar component in Firefox View to 260px to accommodate languages such as German. The sidebar will still wrap text if text size is increased or if using other languages with longer translations. As far as I can tell, this shouldn't break functionality of the sidebar navigation.