754681 - Poor user experience when getting directions via Yelp

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[ali spivak]

The experience is consistently bad from any Yelp listing when you click "Directions" for a business (restaurant, pharmacy, etc). 

Essentially, when you click on the "Directions" button, Aurora loads the maps page for directions, with several issues:

1. the keyboard opens & stays open.
2. cursor is placed before the first character in the Google bar (top of the map to the right of the Google logo).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to Yelp.com
2. Select Restaurants
3. Click on a restaurant listing
4. click on Directions

What you expected: 
In both the native android browser and maps, the map loads without the keyboard popping up.


Crash report ID (if applicable):

Comment 1

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

(In reply to ali spivak from comment #0)
> 1. the keyboard opens & stays open.
> 2. cursor is placed before the first character in the Google bar (top of the
> map to the right of the Google logo).
> 

This happens because google sends us a different map view than they do the stock browser, and they put focus in the map search field. Tapping outside the text field doesn't hide the keyboard because google also eats all the touch events on that page. You can still hide the keyboard by hitting the android "back" button.

This is mostly an evangelism issue. We might be able to put in a change to remove focus from the text input field if the user taps outside the field even if the page eats touch events, but I'm a bit hesitant to do that since it might break other pages.

Comment 2

[ali spivak]

I filed an additional bug on this - when you hit the back button, the page reloads and you lose the map pin, and often the left pane freezes. 

hitting back twice causes Aurora to close.

Comment 3

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

+ for k9o. What I understand from the comments is that this is actually an issue with Google, not with Yelp.