Fixed toolbar footer does not position correctly on orientation change on the playbook

[jasondscott]

When viewing http://jquerymobile.com/test/docs/toolbars/bars-fixed.html on playbook 2.0 the fixed toolbar footer does not reposition correctly when the orientation is changed regardless of the starting orientation.
Portrait to landscape - footer disappears
Landscape to portrait - footers is in the middle of the screen

[toddparker]

Is there any way to make it re-position without needing a refresh? Does tapping to hide.show toolbars do anything? Sorry, away from the test lab...

[toddparker]

And do you have time to give this a look?

[jasondscott]

Yes, I have time to look into this.
Tapping does hide and show the toolbars correctly.

[toddparker]

@jasondscott - Can you try to give this a look this week so we can fix this for 1.1?

[jasondscott]

I have looked at and stripped it down to a simple test case. It looks like a bug in our webkit and our team is looking into it.
The issue occurs when there is a tag.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">. (GITHUB didn't like the markup)

I assume at there is no real workaround for this besides us fixing our webkit implementation. Thoughts?

[toddparker]

@jasondscott - Are you saying that this is a bug in the Playbook when the viewport tag allows user zoom? We recently added a fix that helped cure the iOS orientation zoom bug but I don't know if it could somehow help here.

[jasondscott]

@toddparker I don't think it is related to zoom, just the existence of the meta tag causes a problem with the viewports height on orientation change. Without the meta tag it works fine.
p.s. I update my above comment with the meta causing the problem.

[toddparker]

RIM has fixed this bug on their end so it will be in a future release. We can close this as our issue.

[ghost]

I'm experiencing simular issues. I cannot have <meta name="viewport" ...> in my code with JQM as elements with fixed layout don't seem to be able to re-position themselves appropriately on e.g. orientationchange.

I have a hidden menu which is fixed, if I go from portrait > landscape the menu gets pushed out of the viewport (somewhat). However, tapping or doing anything to the page updates the layout so it works. Really annoying though. I'd really want to prevent zooming and still being able to do an orientation change without having the layout going nuts!

So this issues with still exist and probably on more than one aspect.