There is a bug in the way the rubyonrails.com website handles the page header iframe thing. This doesn''t happen on all pages, but many of them... perhaps 90% (rough guesstimate). What happens is, when I go to scroll the page with my mouse wheel, it scrolls the contents of the iframe instead of the actual page. No matter what I do, it always scrolls the iframe, even if I click outside of the iframe or whatever. I''m using firefox on linux... I haven''t experienced this on any other computers but my own. Has anybody else seen this? It''s completely infuriating trying to scroll the page and it just doesn''t! I took a glance at the CSS, and I''m thinking this is caused by the "margin-bottom: 1em;" setting on the body tag... because the larger I set my fonts, the farther up the iframe will scroll out of view. So, I dunno, if somebody could fix this, that''d be really nice. Thanks. -- One Guy With A Camera http://rbpark.ath.cx
Hi, On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:38:26 -0700, Rob Park <rbpark-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> There is a bug in the way the rubyonrails.com website handles the page > header iframe thing. This doesn''t happen on all pages, but many of > them... perhaps 90% (rough guesstimate). What happens is, when I go to > scroll the page with my mouse wheel, it scrolls the contents of the > iframe instead of the actual page. No matter what I do, it always > scrolls the iframe, even if I click outside of the iframe or whatever. > > I''m using firefox on linux... I haven''t experienced this on any other > computers but my own. Has anybody else seen this? It''s completely > infuriating trying to scroll the page and it just doesn''t!I couldn''t reproduce the problem. It could be a bad version of Firefox. I''m on Ubuntu Linux - Hoary / Firefox 1.0.1 I clicked on more than ten pages and all of them would scroll ok. Cheers, Joao
> > I''m using firefox on linux... I haven''t experienced this on any other > > computers but my own. Has anybody else seen this? It''s completely > > infuriating trying to scroll the page and it just doesn''t! > > I couldn''t reproduce the problem. It could be a bad version of > Firefox. I''m on Ubuntu Linux - Hoary / Firefox 1.0.1 > I clicked on more than ten pages and all of them would scroll ok.I get the same (mis)behavior as Rob. Debian testing, Firefox 1.01 It is rather annoying. ;) Cameron
Hi,> Happens to me on Gentoo 2004.3/Firefox 1.01.This is good info because Gentoo and Debian are quite different. Ubuntu Hoary uses XOrg, which I think is kind of unique, but I don''t know what the problem is, as I can''t even reproduce it. :-) This is the complete Firefox version that I have: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050315 Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.1) Cheers, Joao
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:39:52 -0300, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> This is good info because Gentoo and Debian are quite different. > Ubuntu Hoary uses XOrg, which I think is kind of unique, but I don''t > know what the problem is, as I can''t even reproduce it. :-) > > This is the complete Firefox version that I have: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050315 > Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.1)I''m on Fedora, which also uses XOrg. I doubt which incarnation of X we''re using has much to do with it. Probably a firefox bug of some kind. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 -- One Guy With A Camera http://rbpark.ath.cx
Happens to me on Gentoo 2004.3/Firefox 1.01. Mike> > > I''m using firefox on linux... I haven''t experienced this on any other > > > computers but my own. Has anybody else seen this? It''s completely > > > infuriating trying to scroll the page and it just doesn''t! > > > > I couldn''t reproduce the problem. It could be a bad version of > > Firefox. I''m on Ubuntu Linux - Hoary / Firefox 1.0.1 > > I clicked on more than ten pages and all of them would scroll ok. > > I get the same (mis)behavior as Rob. Debian testing, Firefox 1.01 > > It is rather annoying. ;) > > Cameron_______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
I think Ive experienced this also on several sites. I think it happens when you try to wheel scroll down a page and your cursor is over a <code>??? chunk. Havent seen any other issues related to scrolling so check and see if thats what it is for you too. Cameron McBride wrote:>>>I''m using firefox on linux... I haven''t experienced this on any other >>>computers but my own. Has anybody else seen this? It''s completely >>>infuriating trying to scroll the page and it just doesn''t! >>> >>> >>I couldn''t reproduce the problem. It could be a bad version of >>Firefox. I''m on Ubuntu Linux - Hoary / Firefox 1.0.1 >>I clicked on more than ten pages and all of them would scroll ok. >> >> > >I get the same (mis)behavior as Rob. Debian testing, Firefox 1.01 > >It is rather annoying. ;) > >Cameron >_______________________________________________ >Rails mailing list >Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org >http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > >
My complete version info is: Gentoo 2004.3 XOrg - X Window System Version 6.8.0, Release Date: 8 September 2004 Firefox/1.0.1, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 If I go to http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/LoginGenerator and scroll down with my mouse wheel, the banner at the top scrolls up, disappearing behind the Firefox toolbar (the rest of the page doesn''t move), after about 10mm of scrolling, the rest of the page starts to scroll as normal. The reverse happens when scrolling up. Hardly a train smash though. Michael> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:39:52 -0300, Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > This is good info because Gentoo and Debian are quite different. > > Ubuntu Hoary uses XOrg, which I think is kind of unique, but I don''t > > know what the problem is, as I can''t even reproduce it. :-) > > > > This is the complete Firefox version that I have: > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050315 > > Firefox/1.0 (Ubuntu package 1.0.1) > > I''m on Fedora, which also uses XOrg. I doubt which incarnation of X > we''re using has much to do with it. Probably a firefox bug of some > kind. > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 > Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 >_______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:57:49 -0800, Joe Noon <joey-ZEVs864fXHyI0AUCcRWsNg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> I think Ive experienced this also on several sites. I think it happens > when you try to wheel scroll down a page and your cursor is over a > <code>??? chunk. Havent seen any other issues related to scrolling so > check and see if thats what it is for you too.It''s a IFRAME thing - if for whatever reason FireFox things there''s more content than the bounding box allows it''ll let you scroll it. Move the mouse further down the page and you''ll be fine. To fix it the developers need to make sure that the contents of the iframe don''t exceed the height. Even Google don''t do it - mouse over an adsense block and scroll a bit ;) -- Phillip Hutchings http://www.sitharus.com/ sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org / sitharus-QrR4M9swfipWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:25:51 +1200, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> It''s a IFRAME thing - if for whatever reason FireFox things there''s > more content than the bounding box allows it''ll let you scroll it. > Move the mouse further down the page and you''ll be fine. > > To fix it the developers need to make sure that the contents of the > iframe don''t exceed the height. Even Google don''t do it - mouse over > an adsense block and scroll a bit ;)No, this problem is related but much, much worse. You''re right, google adsense ads scroll in this fashion: if you mouse over them and scroll, it scrolls the ad, then when the ad is done scrolling, it scrolls the page. But the rails website does not work this way. It doesn''t matter where my mouse is on the page, if even 1px of the iframe is visible, mouse wheel will ONLY scroll the iframe, not the page. If I manually yank on the scroll bar until the iframe is out of site, then the page will scroll normally. But that iframe, somehow, steals "mouse wheel focus" if that makes sense. Scrolling with the mouse wheel moves the iframe up and down, but even if I scroll the iframe right to the end, it won''t start scrolling the rest of the page like it does for google adsense ads. It is very infurating because I have become used to the mouse wheel from many, many years of use. I never click on scrollbars, I only use the mouse wheel. So when I go to the rails website and suddenly my mouse wheel becomes useless, it''s very aggravating. (I also experience the issue Joe mentioned where scrolling while the mouse is over a <code> block does nothing, but that is a minor issue as I can move my mouse off the code block and scrolling works again. The issue I mention is much more serious since the only way to make scrolling work again is to literally click & drag on the scrollbar until the iframe is out of view). -- One Guy With A Camera http://rbpark.ath.cx
> But the rails website does not work this way. It doesn''t matter where > my mouse is on the page, if even 1px of the iframe is visible, mouse > wheel will ONLY scroll the iframe, not the page. If I manually yank on > the scroll bar until the iframe is out of site, then the page will > scroll normally. But that iframe, somehow, steals "mouse wheel focus" > if that makes sense. Scrolling with the mouse wheel moves the iframe > up and down, but even if I scroll the iframe right to the end, it > won''t start scrolling the rest of the page like it does for google > adsense ads.This is not my experience with FireFox on Windows (icky, but I''m at work), or FireFox on MacOS X. It sounds like a bug in firefox for Linux somewhere, not on the site. -- Phillip Hutchings http://www.sitharus.com/ sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org / sitharus-QrR4M9swfipWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:50:25 +1200, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> This is not my experience with FireFox on Windows (icky, but I''m at > work), or FireFox on MacOS X. It sounds like a bug in firefox for > Linux somewhere, not on the site.It''s possibly a bug in firefox but I''m not sure. I haven''t noticed this problem on _any_ other website, so I''m inclined to think that the website is doing something wrong. -- One Guy With A Camera http://rbpark.ath.cx
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:39:34 -0700, Rob Park <rbpark-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> It''s possibly a bug in firefox but I''m not sure. I haven''t noticed > this problem on _any_ other website, so I''m inclined to think that the > website is doing something wrong.Strange, I''m just browsing the rails website now and it seems like it''s changed so that after the iframe finishes scrolling, the page then scrolls properly. Still looks kinda goofy with the iframe scrolling, but at least I can scroll the page now! I''m not sure what changed between now and last time when nothing would scroll at all... if somebody fixed the website, thanks! ;) -- One Guy With A Camera http://rbpark.ath.cx
I think it''s more likely a Firefox issue. The link to the Rails Logon generator page scrolls just fine in Moz 1.7.2 on Windows. You have tried other browsers on other OS, right? On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:43:10 -0700, Rob Park <rbpark-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:25:51 +1200, Phillip Hutchings > <sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > It''s a IFRAME thing - if for whatever reason FireFox things there''s > > more content than the bounding box allows it''ll let you scroll it. > > Move the mouse further down the page and you''ll be fine. > > > > To fix it the developers need to make sure that the contents of the > > iframe don''t exceed the height. Even Google don''t do it - mouse over > > an adsense block and scroll a bit ;) > > No, this problem is related but much, much worse. You''re right, google > adsense ads scroll in this fashion: if you mouse over them and scroll, > it scrolls the ad, then when the ad is done scrolling, it scrolls the > page. > > But the rails website does not work this way. It doesn''t matter where > my mouse is on the page, if even 1px of the iframe is visible, mouse > wheel will ONLY scroll the iframe, not the page. If I manually yank on > the scroll bar until the iframe is out of site, then the page will > scroll normally. But that iframe, somehow, steals "mouse wheel focus" > if that makes sense. Scrolling with the mouse wheel moves the iframe > up and down, but even if I scroll the iframe right to the end, it > won''t start scrolling the rest of the page like it does for google > adsense ads. > > It is very infurating because I have become used to the mouse wheel > from many, many years of use. I never click on scrollbars, I only use > the mouse wheel. So when I go to the rails website and suddenly my > mouse wheel becomes useless, it''s very aggravating. > > (I also experience the issue Joe mentioned where scrolling while the > mouse is over a <code> block does nothing, but that is a minor issue > as I can move my mouse off the code block and scrolling works again. > The issue I mention is much more serious since the only way to make > scrolling work again is to literally click & drag on the scrollbar > until the iframe is out of view). > > -- > One Guy With A Camera > http://rbpark.ath.cx > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >