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Bug 69637 - MobileFrontend: Showing the "back" button in the editors is silly in Android because the browser back button is available, as is a hardware one
MobileFrontend: Showing the "back" button in the editors is silly in Android ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MobileFrontend
Classification: Unclassified
Feature requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low trivial
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: design
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Reported: 2014-08-16 00:25 UTC by Dan Garry
Modified: 2014-11-13 20:10 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Dan Garry 2014-08-16 00:25:00 UTC
Platform: Nexus 7

Using VE on my Nexus 7, there are three separate back buttons on my screen that do the same thing: Chrome's, VE's, and Android's. Two of them are really close to each other and use practically the same icon, which looks quite silly.

http://i.imgur.com/i1B0dNn.png
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2014-08-16 00:26:31 UTC
On a Nexus 4, though, the address bar with the back button in it aggressively hides itself once you scroll down. At least on normal web pages, it might not do that on VE because of the scrolling hacks Juliusz has been using to try and get iOS Safari to behave.
Comment 2 Dan Garry 2014-08-16 00:29:22 UTC
Setting to "low trivial" based on my own thoughts on this, but feel free to change that.
Comment 3 James Forrester 2014-11-13 13:20:45 UTC
This is a general MobileFrontend design decision.
Comment 4 Bingle 2014-11-13 13:25:13 UTC
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/m3AT6u0n
Comment 5 Jon 2014-11-13 20:10:45 UTC
Some mobile browsers have no visible back button. We've never really explored whether people use the back button or use browser back but this was what it was based on. It would be good to explore this and revisit this decision. I'd suggest that would need to start with the design team and some research around moving it.

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