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VisualEditor "leave BETA" dialogue jumps around, making leave hard/impossible
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Description

Author: wikipedia

Description:
To reproduce:

  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2?veaction=edit&vesection=6
  2. Wait, hopefully the VisualEditor loads, and does not hang
  3. Click "BETA"
  4. Click Leave.
  5. Try to type in this dialogue box

What happens:

  1. The window scrolls around with each and every keypress.
  2. The Leave BETA dialogue is very hard to complete.

What should happen:

  1. The window should not scroll
  2. The process of leaving should be easy and reliable.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz50602

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:03 AM
bzimport added a project: VisualEditor.
bzimport set Reference to bz50602.

wikipedia wrote:

Video of VisualEditor jumping around while typing in Leave dialogue.

Third attempt at video attachment of issue (failed on creation). Truncated with 'dd if=visual-editor-madness.ogv of=visual-editor-madness-10240kB.ogv bs=1k count=9999'

Attached:

Sorry about this bug; we fixed it a few days ago and deployed it to the servers - merging with that report.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 50538 ***