Last modified: 2014-11-03 21:53:23 UTC
Navigate to Login on Opera Mini browser – you'll see two blank fields that don't indicate where to enter your username or password. From there, navigate to create account and it's even worse – no indication of where to enter username, password, email, or CAPTCHA. Effectively, this makes creating an account impossible, and login also quite difficult.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/jt1O10K2
This is because Opera Mini is the only browser that doesn't support the 'placeholder' attribute. Should we build a fallback just for Opera Mini?
There was a bug about placeholder support in opera mini for search overlay that got won't fixed. Good reasons in that bug where ever it might be about why we shouldn't build JS fallbacks (Also opera mini doesn't run our JS at all although we may want to revisit this)
Opera Mini 5-7 doesn't support placeholders or media queries. I'd suggest adding labels and using a media query to hide them.
Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Trello card https://trello.com/c/uyLAu4Q2
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165634 will take care of this if it was to move to stable. I think we need to kill our custom login code.
Change 165634 had a related patch set uploaded by Florianschmidtwelzow: Use desktop login/account creation form in alpha https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165634
Change 165634 merged by jenkins-bot: Use desktop login/account creation form in alpha https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/165634
New login form in alpha solves this issues. Need to get these changes into stable.
