Last modified: 2012-02-24 02:52:01 UTC
Broken out from bug 32123: > Seeing the scrolling problem in Android app with Arabic pages, possibly all RTL > languages. Here is an example: > > http://ar.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%82%D9%87%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9 > Also Android browser on nexus One 2.3.6. > Last section on that page when opened has a better example of the problem. Easy steps to open this page in the app: * set to English * go to page "Dakahlia Governorate" * menu / "Read in..." / select Arabic This looks like it may be a browser bug/limitation in the Android web view; same problem is visible in the web browser app (where the whole page is marked as RTL) on ar.m.wikipedia.org and in our app (where only a portion of the page is marked as RTL).
No version of Android's stock browser that I tested, or Opera Mobile/Mini, was able to correctly scroll horizontally on RTL pages containing wide images in my testing. Only Safari on iOS (tested 5) worked correctly, and even it had a wrong initial scroll position. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au4uRHcaarTrdDdMenNCSVVWUXRrakxFajdDWEk5cVE&hl=en_US#gid=0 There may not be much we can do about this.
