Hard to tap links at the very bottom of webpage

[Joseph Wakeling]

When touching the very bottom of the window, the webbrowser-app brings up the new-tab bottom-of-screen panel. This means that if a webpage has links on the very bottom of the page, it is impossible to click them.

Prior to r24, it was possible to deal with this by rotating to horizontal view, and tapping the link, since "bottom of the screen" was defined on one screen edge only. However, since r24 brings full shell rotation, this is no longer the case.

Example webpage where this affects the ability to navigate: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mnp350$7ql$<email address hidden> (scroll down to the bottom for the « First ‹ Prev | Next › Last » links, these are now impossible to use).

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Unfortunately a tap too close to the edge seems to be detected as a swipe gesture.

I did manage to activate the links on the example page provided in the description after a few attempts, although I must admit I had a hard time achieving it.

Even though this is not a proper fix, one way around the problem is to pinch on the page to zoom in, thus making the links larger, and then scroll to the bottom to tap them.

[lgd (lgd)]

At other mobile sites without zoom possibility but with a too small link to change the site to the desktop version it is absolutely impossible to reach the link. But only the desktop version has the full information...