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wfHttpError output font size very small on various mobile browsers (Edge, Chrome, etc)
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Description

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open an invalid short URL on a mobile device (e.g., https://w.wiki/qwerty).

Actual result

  1. You get an unreadably tiny error message in the upper left corner, otherwise a huge white space.

Expected result

  1. The error message is of readable font size, at the cost of seeing less blank screen. This can be achieved with a viewport meta tag in wfHttpError (rMW includes/GlobalFunctions.php:1557-1585 (at da18f3eea7c2)).

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It's not tiny here when using the mobile mode in Firefox... this seems to be again an issue in Chrome (please mention browsers when reporting such things).

@Aklapper, sorry for not mentioning that it was Firefox, version 68.11.0, desktop mode off (yes, I still use this ancient version on mobile as the new one is simply unusable). Now I tested it with the latest beta (89.0.0-beta.9), and it’s too small there as well. (I don’t have Chrome on my phone, I can’t afford it taking up storage space.)

Uh, interesting. As said, cannot reproduce on desktop in Firefox 88 (but cannot test on a phone device either).

(For the records, end-of-life for Firefox 68.x.x support was in September 2020; 68.x support is Grade C only so it's expected that some stuff won't work.)

I believe that you mean this.

Screenshot_20210522_181234_com.microsoft.emmx.jpg (2×1 px, 99 KB)

Screenshot is from the Microsoft Edge 77.0.3865.116 (Chromium based), Android 10, Huawei P40 Lite phone.

Aklapper renamed this task from wfHttpError output should be mobile-friendly to wfHttpError output font size very small on various mobile browsers.May 22 2021, 4:28 PM

Sorry, this is not my day. :( So:

What I seeWhat I want to see
Screenshot_2021-05-22-19-18-48.png (960×540 px, 17 KB)
Screenshot_2021-05-22-19-19-04.png (960×540 px, 22 KB)

Uh, interesting. As said, cannot reproduce on desktop in Firefox 88 (but cannot test on a phone device either).

I couldn’t really reproduce it with FF78.10esr’s responsive design mode either. (This one is not EOL’d yet by Mozilla, even though Wikimedia/MediaWiki unfortunately classifies it as Grade C despite of being the stock browser of Debian.)

(For the records, end-of-life for Firefox 68.x.x support was in September 2020; 68.x support is Grade C only so it's expected that some stuff won't work.)

I know it and I don’t expect all fancy stuff to work in it, but I dared to report it because this is a basic mobile compatibility issue, and the above screenshots show that it’s present in a newer version as well.

Aklapper renamed this task from wfHttpError output font size very small on various mobile browsers to wfHttpError output font size very small on various mobile browsers (Edge, Chrome, etc).Jun 10 2021, 9:12 PM
Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.