By mikude on

I am not sure this can be resolved, however I have been asked to look into this. 

At normal size, all of our drupal stuff looks pretty great.  

However, when you resize the window, to half size, then shrink it from there, menus go out of alignment rather than stacking directly on top of each other AND some test input fields are trimmed such that they lose their rounded corners.  

My gut feeling on this is that the javascript presentation code becomes slightly broken when asked to redisplay the same information in a window that is 300px wide, or is there something that can be done here for this scenario?

Or maybe I'm looking for the best answer to tell somebody who has unreasonable expectations for the beauty of things when they are asked to do ridiculous things, i.e. how do you respond to someone who complains about the human readability of things they demand are printed on thimbles?    

Or in general what is the appropriate technical response to 'when i resize this window to something absurd, it doesn't look pretty enough for my standards.  So spend unlimited time resolving this until it is perfected even though you aren't a javascript programmer and hate javascript?'

all thoughts considered, thanks in advance

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vm’s picture

vm commented

which theme is in use? Drupal 7 didn't include an abundance of responsiveness out of the box.

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mikude commented

corporate_clean is the theme.  

Responsiveness has to do with the click response time, which this post is not about. 

This post is about resizing the website how it has flaws in non-standard resolutions.

Are flaws in non-standard resolutions simply to be expected in D7?  Are these better in D8?

mmjvb’s picture

mmjvb commented

context of a web theme. Has nothing to do with response time. It has to do with adjusting to size. The subject of this topic.

Indeed, D8 is more responsive out of the box and nowadays themes are responsive.

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mikude commented

This is really as unhelpful as you can possibly be.  

Response has to do with latency, if you have some other definition here, I guess that is fine but it is you with a special definition of words not me.  

It does not help my specific question regarding resizing glitches to say that 'responsiveness might be better in d8' and then refuse to say anything specific about resizing glitches.  

Is there anyone else on this forum that will attempt to be helpful and address the question without snarky evasions of the issue and semantics?

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odessy commented

Are you using D7 or D8? Themes play an important rule in this case, sometime you experience this when there is code conflict, 

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mikude commented

We are using d7 but this issue highlights maybe another reason to upgrade.  

We have a very normal theme but I am asking overall if this is 'expected normal behavior' of the theme or if d8 will handle resizing better in general.    

From what I understand it is all javascript and has to do with the browser, resolution, display, etc, whether or not every single pixel variation will result in something pretty or something jumbled.   

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vm commented

responsive in the context in which I utilized the word has nothing to do with "time". Responsive is an entire category of themes built from the ground up to take device/screen size in to consideration. Thus "responsive" to device/screen size.

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mikude commented

thanks, this is what we'll look for then.