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Except that the top bar covers about the top 2/3 of it on mobile safari. This glitch renders essentially the entire site useless. (What’s up with floating top

by amluto 4y ago

Except that the top bar covers about the top 2/3 of it on mobile safari. This glitch renders essentially the entire site useless. (What’s up with floating top bars? Either just make them be a real part of the page, or move them to the bottom, or, if absolutely necessary, keep them floating and test the heck out of them. Because that floating element that can’t be dismissed will result in a near 100% reduction in your conversion rate all by itself.)

mey 4y ago
This is true in Firefox and Chrome on Android as well.
- rob74 4y ago
  I guess this is more desktop-centric than most other browser-based UIs - I mean, JetBrains is mostly developer tools, and most people don't use their phone for programming...
  - Kuinox 4y ago
    You hope...
  - Bilal_io 4y ago
    What's broken is the Storybook UI which is only used to demo the components. The components themselves should work fine on any modern browser.
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    People use everything for programming. Android has the AWD ide which is not bad overall for development
cercatrova 4y ago
Storybook is not supposed to be used on mobile, it's a desktop optimized UI.
- IshKebab 4y ago
  Ok but the reason it is broken really has nothing to do with mobile vs desktop.
  - CodeSgt 4y ago
    It sure seems like the only issues are those on mobile
    - IshKebab 4y ago
      It's a bug that manifests itself on mobile, but it probably does the same thing on desktop too if you shrink the window really small, and even if it doesn't, it's just a CSS big that is triggered by mobile browsers. There's nothing big that is preventing it from working fine on mobile. Most of the pages do work fine.
- danpeddle 4y ago
  But then, how do you test components on mobile? Or are we not supposed to ask that?
  - Kiro 4y ago
    Why would you test components that can only be reached on desktop on mobile? These are components to be used inside JetBrains IDE.
    - fragmede 4y ago
      It sure seems like people are reaching this on mobile
      - cercatrova 4y ago
        JetBrains IDEs are not on mobile though. It doesn't matter if they're incidentally accessed on mobile if they're not actually designed to be used on mobile.
Kiro 4y ago
Do you use JetBrains software on mobile? This is for building stuff inside JetBrains.
- wartijn_ 4y ago
  I don't but I do use, and am interested in, their software. So it's a bit disappointing to see a link to their site while using hn on mobile, only to get to a page that doesn't display anything useful.
  - Kiro 4y ago
    But the components are not supposed to work on mobile so what is there to see?
    - wartijn_ 4y ago
      You seem to assume that everybody on this website knows what Ring UI is. But I didn't know and judging from quite a few other comments here, I wasn't the only one. All we had to go by was the title "JetBrains Ring UI" and a comment stating that a date picker looks nice. Without any kind of description it's not that weird to assume a website with a datepicker works decently on mobile.
      - nsxwolf 4y ago
        I wouldn't be investing effort improving the mobile browser behavior of desktop oriented controls for the benefit of making it a better HN submission.
        robertlagrant 4y ago
        I think you've missed the point of the previous comment.
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by amluto 4y ago

mey 4y ago

This is true in Firefox and Chrome on Android as well.

rob74 4y ago
I guess this is more desktop-centric than most other browser-based UIs - I mean, JetBrains is mostly developer tools, and most people don't use their phone for programming...
- Kuinox 4y ago
  You hope...
- Bilal_io 4y ago
  What's broken is the Storybook UI which is only used to demo the components. The components themselves should work fine on any modern browser.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  People use everything for programming. Android has the AWD ide which is not bad overall for development

cercatrova 4y ago

Storybook is not supposed to be used on mobile, it's a desktop optimized UI.

IshKebab 4y ago
Ok but the reason it is broken really has nothing to do with mobile vs desktop.
- CodeSgt 4y ago
  It sure seems like the only issues are those on mobile
  - IshKebab 4y ago
    It's a bug that manifests itself on mobile, but it probably does the same thing on desktop too if you shrink the window really small, and even if it doesn't, it's just a CSS big that is triggered by mobile browsers. There's nothing big that is preventing it from working fine on mobile. Most of the pages do work fine.
danpeddle 4y ago
But then, how do you test components on mobile? Or are we not supposed to ask that?
- Kiro 4y ago
  Why would you test components that can only be reached on desktop on mobile? These are components to be used inside JetBrains IDE.
  - fragmede 4y ago
    It sure seems like people are reaching this on mobile
    - cercatrova 4y ago
      JetBrains IDEs are not on mobile though. It doesn't matter if they're incidentally accessed on mobile if they're not actually designed to be used on mobile.

Kiro 4y ago

Do you use JetBrains software on mobile? This is for building stuff inside JetBrains.

wartijn_ 4y ago
I don't but I do use, and am interested in, their software. So it's a bit disappointing to see a link to their site while using hn on mobile, only to get to a page that doesn't display anything useful.
- Kiro 4y ago
  But the components are not supposed to work on mobile so what is there to see?
  - wartijn_ 4y ago
    You seem to assume that everybody on this website knows what Ring UI is. But I didn't know and judging from quite a few other comments here, I wasn't the only one. All we had to go by was the title "JetBrains Ring UI" and a comment stating that a date picker looks nice. Without any kind of description it's not that weird to assume a website with a datepicker works decently on mobile.
    - nsxwolf 4y ago
      I wouldn't be investing effort improving the mobile browser behavior of desktop oriented controls for the benefit of making it a better HN submission.
      - robertlagrant 4y ago
        I think you've missed the point of the previous comment.
      - deleted 4y ago
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