Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 7 years ago

#8307 confirmed Bug

[iOS] Maximize is broken

Reported by: Frederico Caldeira Knabben Owned by:
Priority: Nice to have (we want to work on it) Milestone:
Component: General Version: 3.6.2
Keywords: iOS Cc:

Description

When Maximizing, the editor toolbar go out of the viewport boundaries, making it impossible to use the editor and restore the size to use the page.

Change History (31)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by Frederico Caldeira Knabben

Status: newconfirmed

Confirmed with iOS 5 Beta 6.

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by Frederico Caldeira Knabben

Version: 3.6.2 (SVN - trunk)

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by Frederico Caldeira Knabben

For now, I've disabled the Maximize command on iOS with [7271].

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by Jakub Ś

Summary: iOS: Maximize is broken[iOS] Maximize is broken

comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by The Digital Orchard

It's been four years since Maximize was disabled on iOS and it's still not enabled... is it still broken, even on iOS 8? I have clients that would really appreciate being able to maximize the editor.

comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by Piotr Jasiun

I have tested it right now, and the situation is better only on the bigger screen.

On iPad editor works fine in the maximize mode. The toolbar is visible and available. The only problem is that if keyboard appears editor is scrolled so the toolbar is above the viewport and I need to scroll it back, what it not that big deal, but if editor would resize instead, the experience would be perfect.

On iPod it is broken as it was before.

On both devices I had iOS 8.3 with mobile Safari 8 (AppleWebKit/600.1.4).

We could consider re-enabling it on the iPad.

comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by Szymon Cofalik

Owner: set to Szymon Cofalik
Status: confirmedassigned

comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by Szymon Cofalik

After extensive week of trying to fix current maximize solution to fit iPad quirks I have to surrender, because hacking one bug lead to another one. Unfortunately, handling iframe that fills whole viewport and is scrollable is difficult. When keyboard is shown, it makes original viewport scrollable too, so we have a scrollable window in a scrollable window.

I tried to fit iframe's height to be viewport height minus iOS keyboard height and partially managed to do so. However, the viewport was still scrollable (it had "empty" html element behind it and it was possible to still scroll down). AFAIR I managed to fix this behavior by preventing scroll event when editor reached certain scroll and when screen was touched at too low position.

Then other problems occured: iframe's scroll started to jump all over the place when typing letters. I haven't found a good solution for the last problem that didn't introduce heavy UX flaws and at that point the code was really messy and hacked so I come to conclusion that it is not worthy to go even deeper this way.

There is other possible solution to maximize on iPad. We cold make the iframe's width 100% of the viewport and set height like autogrow plugin does - height would be big enough to show all contents. Then we would use viewport's scrollbar for scrolling and iframe wouldn't have any scrollbar. Maybe in this approach we would get rid of some problems and this would result in correct working of maximize plugin on iPad. However, it needs further research.

Right now I am only pushing what @pjasiun suggested: I enable maximize plugin for iPads. It is usable but I wouldn't expect good user experience. branch:t/8307.

Last edited 9 years ago by Szymon Cofalik (previous) (diff)

comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

There is other possible solution to maximize on iPad. We cold make the iframe's width 100% of the viewport and set height like autogrow plugin does - height would be big enough to show all contents. Then we would use viewport's scrollbar for scrolling and iframe wouldn't have any scrollbar. Maybe in this approach we would get rid of some problems and this would result in correct working of maximize plugin on iPad. However, it needs further research.

I'm super interested in results of this research. We can accept branch:t/8307 for now and perhaps for the rest of CKE 4.x's life, but we'll need a better, more stable, simpler in terms of code and hence more predictable solution for CKE5. Therefore please give it a try. I think that some mockups would be a good start.

comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.2
Owner: changed from Szymon Cofalik to Piotrek Koszuliński
Status: assignedreview

comment:11 Changed 9 years ago by Szymon Cofalik

I've pushed branch:t/8307-new.

On this branch I included a prototype of solution where maximize acts like autogrow. It's nowhere near to a final solution and it is not integrated with autogrow (I think that would be profitable -- instead of copying similar parts of code). However this is a good starting point to see how iPad behaves (and try to fix it's quirks).

I think that it looks promising.

The big struggle with iPad is that it enables scrolling of iframe even if iframe's contents are smaller than the iframe itself. If we manage to overcome this behavior without introducing other bugs we will have easy time with the rest of the plugin.

comment:12 Changed 9 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.2CKEditor 4.5.3

comment:13 Changed 9 years ago by Olek Nowodziński

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.3CKEditor 4.5.4
Owner: changed from Piotrek Koszuliński to Olek Nowodziński
Status: reviewassigned

This is quite a story and it still requires hours of research and prototyping. I don't think we'll be able to release a stable solution any time soon.

comment:14 Changed 8 years ago by Piotrek Koszuliński

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.4CKEditor 4.5.5

comment:15 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.5CKEditor 4.5.6

comment:16 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.6CKEditor 4.5.7

comment:17 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.7CKEditor 4.5.8

comment:18 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.8CKEditor 4.5.9

comment:19 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.9CKEditor 4.5.10

comment:20 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.10CKEditor 4.5.11

Moving tickets to the next milestone.

comment:21 Changed 8 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.5.11CKEditor 4.6.1
Owner: Olek Nowodziński deleted
Status: assignedconfirmed

comment:22 Changed 7 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Milestone: CKEditor 4.6.1

Removing from milestone. There's no strong demand for this issue from our community so it has a lower priority.

comment:23 Changed 7 years ago by joshua

is there any way to enable maximize on iphone?

comment:24 in reply to:  22 Changed 7 years ago by joshua

Replying to m.lewandowski:

Removing from milestone. There's no strong demand for this issue from our community so it has a lower priority.

sorry to bother but is there any way to enable maximize on iphone?

comment:25 Changed 7 years ago by Jakub Ś

#16856 was marked as duplicate

comment:26 Changed 7 years ago by Fabrizio Bettinelli

Hi! We've been waiting for this feature to be fixed for a while now, Have you got any updates? Are you planning on fixing it soon?

comment:27 Changed 7 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

I'll put it once again on our backlog, we'll see if there's something reasonable we can do about it. But looking at past history it's not going to be a trivial task. Can't provide you with any precise ETA though.

Last edited 7 years ago by Marek Lewandowski (previous) (diff)

comment:28 in reply to:  27 Changed 7 years ago by Fabrizio Bettinelli

Replying to m.lewandowski:

I'll put it once again on our backlog, we'll see if there's something reasonable we can do about it. But looking at past history it's not going to be a trivial task. Can't provide you with any precise ETA though.

Thanks for that! The fact that it'll be back on your backlog gives us some hope!

I'll pay attention to the ticket updates.

comment:29 Changed 7 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

Priority: NormalNice to have (we want to work on it)

comment:30 Changed 7 years ago by Marek Lewandowski

I can also note that mobile support (including full screen) is in our area of interest in upcoming CKEditor 5, you'll find more on that in UX: Mobile editing issue.

comment:31 in reply to:  30 Changed 7 years ago by Fabrizio Bettinelli

Replying to m.lewandowski:

I can also note that mobile support (including full screen) is in our area of interest in upcoming CKEditor 5, you'll find more on that in UX: Mobile editing issue.


Thanks, I will keep an eye on it.

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