887749 - Fluid width for translation interface

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Design, defect, P1)

Description

[Thierry Régagnon]

What feature should be changed? Please provide the URL of the feature if possible.
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The translation interface should have a fluid width. The current width is OK for English content creation. But with the split interface for translation, translating some content (like large tables) are near to impossible.

What problems would this solve?
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It would allow to see the entire content that need to be translated.

Who would use this?
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Translators with large screens could profit from this change

What would users see?
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Fluid width.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Provide a button to switch from the fixed width to the fluid width, and vice versa.
Or change the width to be always fluid.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[Thierry Régagnon]

Attachment: Current translation interface with fixed width

Comment 2

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

We'll keep this in mind with the upcoming redesign.

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

I did move MDN to fluid width so this is now complete.

Comment 4

[Thierry Régagnon]

I am sorry bu I disagree. There is max-width on the page content. When translating some pages on a 27" display, you miss the empty space.

Comment 5

[ali spivak]

discussed in triage meeting on 1/10/2014. Getting into dev queue, should be possible to do this per David Walsh.

Comment 6

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

This can be implemented once prioritized.

Comment 7

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Yes, even if thinking/planning/designing of better l10n tools are about to start, I think this should be done to ease it in the meantime. I'm proposing P1 because it may have no more meaning if we wait Q2 for this (depending of the results of the l10n planning).

Feedbacking ali and mars for the priority.

Comment 8

[Māris Fogels [:mars] (please needinfo)]

I'm going to set this to P1, since Ali already mentioned moving it into the queue in comment 5.

Comment 9

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/kuma

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/50ca920eae2e5cd82804fc6725aa3f9af0cd53cf
fix bug 887749 - Make translate page more fluid

https://github.com/mozilla/kuma/commit/9bda61f3ea1d89a2b53d23ac49f77d051d263339
Merge pull request #1943 from darkwing/fluid-translation-887749

fix bug 887749 - Make translate page more fluid