Sticky footer does not support dynamic footer height

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Sticky footer does not support dynamic footer height #349

Open sigvef opened 9 years ago

cristeahub commented 9 years ago

What is the problem with this?

sigvef commented 9 years ago

I created this issue as a reaction to #348.

cristeahub commented 9 years ago

I know, but I don't see what's the problem with being bound to a fixed-height footer. Is it for mobile?

sigvef commented 9 years ago

One problem is that the next time we want to change the footer content, we're going to forget to change the footer height again, breaking layout.

sigvef commented 9 years ago

Another is that having a fixed height footer is a hack, and will invariably break for some obscure browser configuration. One such configuration is on my screen with the page zoomed out quite a bit (see image, notice the scroll bar present). Other such configurations may be different font renderers on different platforms, different dpi settings for rendering form widgets, and more.