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Bug 68123 - Without CSS, clicks on thumbnails getting silently swallowed
Without CSS, clicks on thumbnails getting silently swallowed
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
MultimediaViewer (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-07-16 21:23 UTC by christian
Modified: 2014-07-17 06:52 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description christian 2014-07-16 21:23:18 UTC
For users that have CSS disabled (but JavaScript enabled), clicking on
a thumbnail does not cause any action. Neither a forward to the File
page, nor to a bigger version of the file.

Hence, for users that have CSS disabled (but JavaScript enabled) there
is no direct way to get a bigger version of the thumbnail.


Steps to reproduce:
* Turn off CSS (but leave JavaScript enabled)
* Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tree&oldid=616791430
* Click on the Thumbnail of “Common ash” (Thumbnail at the top)


Actual behaviour:
  No change.


Expected behaviour:
  Being taken to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ash_Tree_-_geograph.org.uk_-_590710.jpg
Comment 1 Tisza Gergő 2014-07-16 22:26:59 UTC
(In reply to christian from comment #0)
> For users that have CSS disabled (but JavaScript enabled)

o_O
...that's a thing?

This is caused by the workaround for bug 61852. I guess we could set a time limit and treat it as a loading error after that. But in general I don't think it's reasonable to expect the site (any site, really) to work with CSS disabled an JS enabled. Had we not this workaround in place, MediaViewer would simply load (and it would be completely useless without CSS, of course).
Comment 2 Erik Moeller 2014-07-16 23:59:30 UTC
Middle-clicking (loading in a new tab) should work as a workaround, FYI.
Comment 3 christian 2014-07-17 06:52:42 UTC
(In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #1)
> (In reply to christian from comment #0)
> > For users that have CSS disabled (but JavaScript enabled)
> 
> o_O
> ...that's a thing?

“a thing” as in “a real bug that is affecting people”?
Yes, it is affecting me on enwiki.

“a thing” as in “affecting the majority of wmf user base”?
No, probably not.

> But in general I don't
> think it's reasonable to expect the site (any site, really) to work with CSS
> disabled an JS enabled.

I disagree.

CSS is a way to separate content from presentation.
Some visually impaired people are using this separation and turn off
author's choice of presentation while still using the content.
For wikipedia, it allows them to have the article text at full browser
width at any zoom level.
This is helping them a lot to consume articles.

Since CSS and JavaScript are separate things, I do not see a reason
why we'd expect them to additionally turn off JavaScript, if they only
want to turn off CSS. YMMV.

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