Huzzah! I shall treasure this almost as much as my Pedant Pendant in The Other Place.
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Image posts can cause a reply window below the image post to jump up and down, at least in Firefox 58 and 59.
May be related to some of these Firefox bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436181
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1305744
It’s most likely to jump if the top of the reply window is near the separator after the image post. It can sometimes keep jumping indefinitely.
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FYI
My watched tags suddenly cleared itself again. Sometime between Saturday and Tuesday.
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Anyone else noticed this? Sometime in the last month, I stopped being able to zoom in on images in threads. I used to use that on my (Android, Chrome-browsing) phone to read comic strips more easily.
It’s not really a showstopper; I was just wondering if it was on purpose or not.
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This seems to happen to me every time Discourse updates. I recall it happening with the badass tag during the Highlander game, and just a few days ago with space_abbey.
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The last upgrade I managed to make it through I thought, but that is a likely culprit.
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Correction: Any posts can make the reply window jump up and down under the wrong circumstances. That suggests a bug in this site, rather than just in Firefox.
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I’ve removed that link for now. The e-mail address is the best option for a quick response.
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This bug sometimes crops up here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459340
Not all the time, but when it does, it makes the site unreadable. Zooming HURTS.
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Interesting. That seems almost like the Ctrl key is being held down, as Ctrl + Scroll zooms in the browser. Does OSX have an equivalent to StickyKeys, and are you using that?
If it happens, try tapping the Ctrl key to see if the behavior changes, and Ctrl + 0 should return the zoom level back to 100%.
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That’s a Firefox issue from the sounds of it, or maybe a Scroll+ issue.
Also: zooming on a computer screen is essential to farsighted and otherwise seeing-impaired people, so stating flat-out it hurts in shouty-caps is neither helpful not particularly considerate of other people’s special needs. It hurts people who are sensitive to the effects of unexpected zooming, yes. Universal access is, fortunately, not a zero-sum game.
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Wouldn’t that be the Command (⌘) key on a Mac?
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Yes, I have sticky keys. Yes, I have to use sticky keys to use the computer. But what would turn on the control key or the command key on the keyboard when I’m using the mouse which is not the keyboard?
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If you need a certain zoom setting, like I need a certain font size setting, you need that setting. I don’t think you need sudden, unpredictable, animated changes to that setting, so 150% zoom becomes 30% zoom. I don’t think that serves anyone’s accessibility needs.
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It looks like it’s possible to disable zooming entirely in FireFox by setting both zoom.maxPercent and zoom.MinPercent to 100 in about:config. That might result in the page not scrolling, but also not zooming if there is indeed something causing the Ctrl/Command key to engage. This assumes that you never want to zoom, of course, or at least want to do so infrequently enough that you’re willing to change a setting to enable/disable it.
Agreed, which is why I mentioned that situation as an exception in my post.
For the record, neither control nor command nor any other modifier keys were engaged.
Is it a known issue that the dates in the Crazytown Thread for last year are presented as being on the 17th of whatever month they were posted in, regardless of the actual post date? That looks like what’s going on, for Aug through Nov at least.
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Are you sure they’re saying Aug 17 and not Aug '17?
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