Exit Chrome
Reopen
Navigate to Meta
Navigate to topic
Reply to Topic
Enter a line or 3 of text
Click title
Scroll to bottom quickly
Click text box to focus on reply
Offset occurs
To fix:
Navigate away from topic (latest)
Refresh page (composer should disappear)
Navigate to topic (composer restores)
Hit reply
Once it is fixed I can’t get it to happen without closing chrome. It seems something in the initial setup of composer is causing this. Not sure what though.
They tried To do the manipulation but the bug did not happen.
The description seems to be our issue. There is a vertical offset and to be able to reply they should click 2cm below the bottom of their screen
Ok just made it reproductible on my lg G5.
I just have To scroll UP to have a google overlay on bottom that propose me to translate the page to french. At that point the offset occurs at each try.
On the video posted by one of our member. A google overlay is also visible at some point.
The click are for modals will be offset from the screen position. (You can do this in both ways, so they are draw above or below if you trigger the bug going up or down).
For the record, mine didn’t require a translation bar but I also think this is a chrome bug because it’s being reported at sitepoint and I know they are not on latest.
Edit: l just had it happen to me visiting this topic immediately and doing nothing else. I used speech to text which might have impacted it but further goes along with this being a chrome issue
I’ve followed that video as precisely as I can, 3 times, and I just can’t get this to repro on OnePlus 6, latest everything, device at all defaults (I unboxed it, updated it to latest versions of apps/OS, then loaded Chrome).
So I wonder if it is an internal Android / Chrome timing issue of some kind?
I do think your theory of the address bar de-syncing sounds correct, since the offset appears to be exactly the address bar size.
When the Chrome address bar is suppressed (via scrolling down), I cannot tap on the bottom-most area in the Chrome viewport where the minimized composer is. It’s physically impossible, my taps don’t register at all!
I have to scroll the viewport up, to bring the Chrome address bar back. Then, and only then, am I able to tap on the area at the bottom of the viewport where the minimized composer is.
So the repro is:
Start composing a reply, type some text in the reply box
Minimize composer.
Scroll down ↓ to force the address bar to disappear.
Try tapping on the minimized composer at the bottom of the viewport; you won’t be able to.
Scroll up ↑ to force the address bar to reappear.
Try tapping on the minimized composer at the bottom of the viewport, it will work fine.
TL;DR there appear to be internal bugs in Android Chrome around the address bar appearing or not appearing, causing it to calculate taps wrong, offset by exactly the address bar height. As a workaround, make sure the address bar is visible by scrolling ↑ up.
