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Bug 44986 - "Why create an account?" section comes after account creation form on non-wide screens
"Why create an account?" section comes after account creation form on non-wid...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
User login and signup (Other open bugs)
1.22.0
All All
: Normal major (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
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Reported: 2013-02-14 08:24 UTC by Nemo
Modified: 2013-10-16 05:42 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Account creation (63.72 KB, image/png)
2013-02-14 08:24 UTC, Nemo
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Description Nemo 2013-02-14 08:24:46 UTC
Created attachment 11785 [details]
Account creation

See screenshot.
Comment 1 Steven Walling 2013-02-14 08:46:00 UTC
This is by design. As you can tell, it only does this at a certain range of smaller browser sizes, and if you go below a certain range it disappears altogether. Without one or both of those two restylings, the benefits would overlap with the form fields at small browser sizes. 

If you're curious be sure to also check out the section marked as "responsive styles" in the acux.css file in E3Experiments, which is currently serving these UI modifications.
Comment 2 Ori Livneh 2013-02-14 09:00:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is by design. As you can tell, it only does this at a certain range of
> smaller browser sizes, and if you go below a certain range it disappears
> altogether.

It should go above, rather than below, no?
Comment 3 Steven Walling 2013-02-14 09:07:02 UTC
It makes more sense to have it go above if you assume most people want to read the benefits before creating an account. I'm not sure that's the case.
Comment 4 Ori Livneh 2013-02-14 09:08:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> It makes more sense to have it go above if you assume most people want to
> read the benefits before creating an account. I'm not sure that's the case.

Well, certainly they wouldn't want to read them *after*!
Comment 5 Steven Walling 2013-10-16 01:27:54 UTC
This extension is no longer deployed, and the account creation UX changes tested therein are merged in core.
Comment 6 Matthew Flaschen 2013-10-16 03:55:53 UTC
It's still present in core.  But per Steven's comment #1, I think it is considered a WONTFIX there.

Putting it after the fold is somewhat similar to not showing it.  In both cases, people are unlikely to read it.  However, I think this is a reasonable trade-off on small screens, so we can show the form at the top.

Putting it after the fold (rather than simply hiding it) gives them the option to scroll down even though relatively few people will.
Comment 7 Steven Walling 2013-10-16 04:13:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> It's still present in core.  But per Steven's comment #1, I think it is
> considered a WONTFIX there.
> 
> Putting it after the fold is somewhat similar to not showing it.  In both
> cases, people are unlikely to read it.  However, I think this is a reasonable
> trade-off on small screens, so we can show the form at the top.
> 
> Putting it after the fold (rather than simply hiding it) gives them the
> option
> to scroll down even though relatively few people will.

Yeah our desired solutions are either below the fold or not showing it. Per bug 49002 my preferred solution would be to hide it.
Comment 8 Nemo 2013-10-16 05:41:53 UTC
This is definitely not invalid, and I've seen it again just few days ago.

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