Full Screen (F11) navigation buttons not working, also broken links possibly due to aspect ratio.

[SteveT]

Just noticed, that the all the menu and navigation buttons are not functioning at max Full Screen view in exlporer mode.  I'm not sure if this has happened since the introduction of the new zoom panorama the other day. It's not working in Chrome or IE  or FF the Keyboard arrow keys still function to forward and reverse. To regain function F11 needs to be pressed again.

Also I know that links to photos have been reported broken in explorer, but some of it seems to be due to the photos aspect ratio 16:9 photos are not displaying whereas 4:3 are OK. This will also be one of the reasons for causing a large dip in viewing stats also reported, and that I've seen lately.

Stephen 

 

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Hi Steve, I have also same experinece with full screen behaviour of exporers toolbar.

Going to report it as a bug.

[SteveT]

Cheers Tomas, 

It's when the screen as at absolute max, ie not showing the Panoramio Logo and only a single menu bar that this problem occurs.

Stephen

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

I know.

[SteveT]

Does anyone know if there has been any progress on this issue?

Stephen

[QuentinUK]

Which browser are you using?

In Safari the menu bar disappears in full screen mode, after about 2 seconds. 

[SteveT]

Hi Quentin

Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox all have this anomaly. In that if you press F11, then go to full screen, the remaining single line pop-up navigation bar controls that you should still be able to use, don't work.

Stephen 

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:16:23 AM UTC+1, SteveT wrote:

.... the remaining single line pop-up navigation bar controls that you should still be able to use, don't work.

E.g., you cannot leave full screen mode via (visible) toolbar by mouse. You have to remember keyboard  shortcut.

Not a big deal in Chrome - in full screen mode there is additional popup with clickable message "Leave full screen mode" and it does work. Moreover, there is a keyboard shortcut for toolbar command Leave full screen mode - Esc.

But problem is in IE...

If you enter full screen mode via toolbar command (not by browser command F11), toolbar turns into "autohide" mode, and buttons on the toolbar work only till first "hide" of toolbar. After that, toolbar re-appears, but from the point of mouse input is transparent (no clicks are counted, double clicks are handled like double clicks in photo area, e.g. zoom). There is no other way how to leave full screen mode than browser "back" command, which takes you back to the point where you have started photo explorer mode.

[SteveT]

The point I'm trying to make is because the autohide tool-bar is there with controls and appears it should work, is that it doesn't. So either it should work or should'nt be there in the first place. If the screen purely was designed to go to only full screen and using ESC to exit that would be OK but the controls are there and they don't work and as far as I can remember have never worked. 

Cheers

Stephen 

[df3vi]

For me, the bug behaves different, tested on Firefox and chrome: The menu bar is functioning also in full screen - until you pause a full screen slide show to zoom into a photo. Then the menu buttons stop working as soon as the little zoom icon on the left appears. You have to use ESC or BACK key in the browser to get out of this.

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Update:

Team have accepted this report as bug and discover the source of problem. Let's hope for the fix.

[SteveT]

Thanks for the update Tomas, sometimes here, things do take a long time to be resolved. Let's hope now they have accepted there is a problem that they now can sort it.

Stephen

[SteveT]

Update on this problem:

I'm not sure if this is due to a nearly  full fix but I can now use the navigation buttons in full screen explore mode. BUT, this is only possible if I use one of the forward or reverse arrows first this seems to trigger the operation of all functions. You used to only be able to use the escape key. 

It is possible nothing has actually changed here, but the point being, if work has been done to fix the toolbar operation in full screen, there is only now small problem of getting this long standing problem fully fixed without first having to use the forward reverse keys.

Cheers

Stephen

[Adam Lasnik]

Steve, thanks for letting us know.  Will dig into this.

[SteveT]

Much appreciated Adam.

Thanks,

Stephen