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Bug 70914 - MediaViewer embed text area is too small, should be made taller/larger
MediaViewer embed text area is too small, should be made taller/larger
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
MultimediaViewer (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-09-16 23:46 UTC by MZMcBride
Modified: 2014-09-18 09:21 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
Screenshot of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union#mediaviewer/File:Livingood_Obama_State_of_the_Union_2011.jpg>, 2014-09-16 (107.21 KB, image/png)
2014-09-16 23:46 UTC, MZMcBride
Details

Description MZMcBride 2014-09-16 23:46:30 UTC
Created attachment 16491 [details]
Screenshot of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union#mediaviewer/File:Livingood_Obama_State_of_the_Union_2011.jpg>, 2014-09-16

The MediaViewer embed text area is too small. It should be taller.

Go to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Union#mediaviewer/File:Livingood_Obama_State_of_the_Union_2011.jpg>, click "Use this file", click "Embed", click "HTML". The text area is too small. Screenshot attached.
Comment 1 Tisza Gergő 2014-09-17 09:59:20 UTC
The box is there to copy the text, not to read it. Especially the HTML embed text can be arbitrarily long, if we want to make it visible, that would require a completely different UI, not tweaks to the current one.

CC Gilles & Pau - moving the reuse menu to the metadata panel would make this fixable.
Comment 2 MZMcBride 2014-09-17 13:10:23 UTC
(In reply to Tisza Gergő from comment #1)
> The box is there to copy the text, not to read it. Especially the HTML embed
> text can be arbitrarily long, if we want to make it visible, that would
> require a completely different UI, not tweaks to the current one.

I don't follow this at all. Perhaps this is specific to my browser, but looking at attachment 16491 [details], there is currently _plenty_ of room to expand the text area.

The text area should be larger by default and/or it should be resizable. The combination of it currently being both small and unable to be resized is unacceptably hostile to the user, in my opinion.
Comment 3 Tisza Gergő 2014-09-17 14:00:19 UTC
It could be made slightly larger, sure. It could not be made large enough to show the full HTML code for an average image - it tends to be fairly long. Resizing an element inside a container which has non-automatic dimensions will result in weird behavior.

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