I can understand why google is changing the width based on the viewport height, there is some logic behind it... They want the page to render in a way that prevents posts being vertically cropped too much (which would result in the user only being able to view a small part of the post and having to scroll back and forth to read it or missing the picture or whatever). The way they are doing this is by changing the width of the contech which scales the overall page on most mobile browsers.
It looks like the issue is when you scroll down the browser automatically hides the tab and location bar which then changes the viewport size which then triggers the page to rescale. This wont only happen on G+ this will happen on lost of sites. Sites don't expect the viewport size to change unless the browser is actually being resized. I'm not sure what the correct solution is but I would say one potential (but perhaps not very clean solution) would be not to change the viewport size when the tab/location bar is hidden if its a website which requires a vertical scroll bar. Essentially pretend the viewport stays a constant size even though in reality it has got larger. Like I said this is not an ideal solution but chances are if you are on a website with a vertical scroll bar the exact height shouldn't be hugely relevant anyway. The other option is as was mentioned to see how Android deals with it. The location bar in Chrome on Android DOES hide but interestingly enough only under certain circumstances. I noticed when looking at Google results it didn't hide until I first tried to scroll up beyond the limit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to webbrowser-app in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575191 Title: plus.google.com re-layouts horizontally when the top bar shows/hides Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Oxide: Invalid Status in Ubuntu UX: New Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Some sites have a menu bar at the top, which appears or disappears depending if you scroll up or down... the presence or absence of this bar causes the browser app to change it's scaling, and this means that scrolling up/down while browsing results in the device continually re- rendering as it re-scales the page... This badly afffects google+ and presumably other google properties... See example here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYhu9v4aX6w To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1575191/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
