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icari

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flexbox and opera 12.14
« on March 14th, 2013, 02:32 PM »
In all themes but warm and wireless there is an issue with the new flexbox layout



looks like in some threads/posts that the signature of the post above will bleed over into the next post. This makes the next post a bit more difficult to read. Most of the time it seems to happen with Arantor's sigature, but I can also see it here http://wedge.org/pub/plugins/7986/the-whole-core-feature-thing/ with Dragooon's signature in the first post into the second.

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #1, on March 14th, 2013, 03:38 PM »
That's interesting, I was sure I'd tested in all major browsers...
Can reproduce. Will look into it right now.

:edit: Hmm... Browser bug? The error disappeared once I got page to the page...
Posted: March 14th, 2013, 03:12 PM

Okay, definitely a browser bug... In the post you mention, I have no problem. But Pete's first post in that topic gets the signature bug.
I disabled all CSS except for the flex, and it was still broken... Then I removed the first quote from his post (through Dragonfly), and it got fixed. Then I re-added it, and it was still working...

When something is so inconsistently broken, it's a flawed implementation.
Given how much time I spent on making it work in Firefox and Chrome, and given how Opera is doomed to be extinct in a couple of years (to my great disappointment), I don't see a reason to spend more time working on 'fixing' their own bugs.

So... I could remove Opera from the list of browsers that support flexbox (the can_flex variable), or add Opera-specific hacks to prevent it from using flexbox (i.e. @if can_flex && !opera), or just let it go.
What do you think, guys..?

Unless someone can find a reason for the bug... :-/

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #2, on March 14th, 2013, 04:06 PM »
I've seen other issues in Chrome with flexbox but they all seem to be randomly reproducible not consistently so >_<
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icari

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #4, on March 22nd, 2013, 11:00 AM »
@Nao any progress on fixing this? I want to see if fixing this also fixes a scroll bar issue I am seeing with private messages using opera.

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #6, on March 25th, 2013, 08:12 PM »
There has not been any progress. This site is always using close-to-if-not-actually-current SVN, and if it's still happening then it's still broken. You could always check the SVN changelog which has been public for years.

icari

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #7, on March 25th, 2013, 09:37 PM »
that does not mean he has not done a local change though right? one that has not yet made it into svn. and yes i did check the changelog for a chance.

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #8, on March 25th, 2013, 10:14 PM »
Sure, there's always the remote chance that a major bug fix gets applied here before it gets put into SVN, but normally it's very obvious that's the case and an SVN commit follows a day or so later - but since it does not appear to be fixed, nor is there any mention in SVN, that would imply it is not fixed, yes?

icari

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #9, on March 25th, 2013, 10:36 PM »
yes it would, so then the question would be for Nao as to when he plans if at all to fix this. it is making reading posts very difficult.

[i am assuming from comments above that it will be fixed at some point]

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #10, on March 25th, 2013, 10:42 PM »
Well, yes, it will get fixed at some point. But we do have other things that need work right now, it is not our #1 item to fix as at this moment in time.

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #11, on March 26th, 2013, 12:46 AM »
Quote from icari on March 22nd, 2013, 11:00 AM
@Nao any progress on fixing this? I want to see if fixing this also fixes a scroll bar issue I am seeing with private messages using opera.
Why would I do anything about it when you didn't give me your opinion on the couple of solutions I suggested..?

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #12, on March 26th, 2013, 12:51 AM »
Because icari is not as technically minded as us. I'd personally declare Opera as no can_flex and be done with it, because as you said, it's going to die sooner or later.

I have noticed it has been more reliable of late, though I'm still having occasional issues with code blocks with a horizontal scrollbar - the scrollbar isn't draggable with a mouse and often has vertical alignment issues.

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #13, on March 26th, 2013, 01:47 AM »
Shouldn't Opera go with WebKit soon? Its share is already ridiculous, when the browser engine will change this wont be a problem anymore.
I think this should be a not-a-bug / won't fix

icari

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Re: flexbox and opera 12.14
« Reply #14, on March 26th, 2013, 02:03 AM »
i dont think won't fix is the way to go, as it may be a long time before opera changes the engine in the stable version of the browser. those that do use opera should not be forced to use another browser when Nao has already stated it is possible to exclude opera from flexbox and the issue is resolved.
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