kentonv / etherpad-lite

Really real-time collaborative document editing for the rest of us
http://etherpad.org
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Comments at end of long document are very hard to interact with #27

Closed zarvox closed 7 years ago

zarvox commented 8 years ago

When a comment is made on a range of text toward the end of a pad with scroll height larger than the window height, it's basically impossible to read/interact with the comment thread, because the comment box always goes below the highlighted section, so in this case it extends the length of the document offscreen. But if you scroll down to try to read the comment, you likely stop hovering over the highlighted section, and the comment thread disappears, which causes the height to return to its previous value. It becomes very hard to actually read comments.

Possible solutions, in order of most desirable to least desirable, include:

kentonv commented 7 years ago

Fixed in 1.6.0~2016-11-15. You should get an update notification with 24 hours.