Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:35 UTC
Created attachment 6872 [details] Screenshot showing a "Read" an a parially shown "Edit" button that to not work. See attached screen shot. This is Opera 10, but other browsers behave likewise. When the window size or screen size is small enough, or the browser window content is sufficiently magnified, navigational buttons disappear, and/or (re)appear in the left box where they are not clickable. I am sorry that my screen shot does not include the mouse cursor as an evidence of the not being clickable, unfortunately the screnshot utility does not capture cursors. Not classifies as "major" since you can always type "action=" in your URLs and thus reach editing URLs as the attached screenshot also shows.
Rendering Vector in a browser with less than 800px of horizontal space will likely cause issues. We can only design and resolve technical issues for most users, not all. We draw the line at 800x600 because resolutions lower than that are only found on a tiny fraction of the internet - way less than 1%. If you need to render Wikipedia at the resolution you are reporting, which happens to be less than 640x480, please consider using a different skin.
Reopening, since I believe this problem should have rather easy solutions, such as wrapping the menu to multiple lines, or collecting links that do not fit in one row under the dropdown at the right (in ltr environments) edge of the menu bar. The problem does not only affect poor people having "antiquated" display screens (i.e. the vast majority of users outside the industrielized so called "developed countries") but also users having multiple windows tiled. I became aware of the problem for the 1st time in a local library where a group of pupils was running a game, several chat windows, an e-mail browser, and wikipedia/wiktionary at the same time, reading books and adding findings to wp/wn only during times when game and chat were silent. They clicked the wp/wn windows to full screen mode so as to reach the "edit" button, and then immediately went back to the former size, so as not to miss any chat or game activity. Of course this is a minor problem, but having it solved imho was better than not to, even more so, since Vector was created as a usability enhancement.
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
