433537 - getting started page design is incompatible with locales

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

The new getting started pages does not allow more content than the current en-US  text because it doesn't expand vertically.

The tabs are also not expanding to allow longer text.

As a result, localizers are starting to give up their link changes pointing to local services and use lower text rewording only to try to have their text displayed and not overflowing out of the box or simply cut out. The page is broken for almost all languages.

It is also probably broken with english speakers having slightly increased text size. This is wrong, we shouldn't lower the quality of localization and productization just because of inadequate CSS/jS.

Comment 1

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Attachment: Mockup with open-bottom box

There were some issues with the initial design of this page that didn't take into account the localization issues. I'm going to work on the tabs to make them expandable.

As for the height of the main box, this is tricky due to the animated transition between frames.

One possible short-cut would be to eliminate the bottom of the frame and leave extra room (see attached mockup).

Comment 2

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

Attachment: Mockup with open-bottom box (updated)

Comment 3

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

As of r13106, we have flexible-width tabs, which is a start.

Comment 4

[John Slater]

Thanks Steven. Let's go with the solution you proposed in comment #2...I think that will work just fine for all involved.

Comment 5

[Steven Garrity [:sgarrity]]

taller, open-bottom box implemented in r13160.

Pascal, can you let me know if these two changes work for the localization team?

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

I will test these changes for all locales tonight

Comment 7

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

It looks ok now, thanks

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

I test too, with at least the following locales:

https://en-gb.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/en-GB/firefox/central/
https://zh-cn.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/zh-CN/firefox/central/
https://de.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/de/firefox/central/
https://es-es.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/es-ES/firefox/central/
https://fr.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/fr/firefox/central/
https://pl.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/pl/firefox/central/
https://ru.www-firefox3.authstage.mozilla.com/ru/firefox/central/

Verified FIXED, since Pascal has tested more, too.