[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #1466: Theme preview broken on anything not desktop

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#1466: Theme preview broken on anything not desktop
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 Reporter:  karmatosed       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Theme Directory  |  Resolution:
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Old description:

> If you try and view the theme preview on any non-desktop device it is
> broken. This has various degrees of issues from not scrolling to actually
> not showing the entire page. For example: https://make.wordpress.org/flow
> /#jp-carousel-3089.
>
> The entire experience is one that means you think the theme itself is
> broken even if a responsive theme. Twenty Sixteen is a prime example of
> this problem.
>
> It would be great to at least get previewing functional on other devices
> apart from desktop. At least solving the scrolling issue would be a good
> starting point.

New description:

 If you try and view the theme preview on any non-desktop device it is
 broken. This has various degrees of issues from not scrolling to actually
 not showing the entire page. For example:
 https://make.wordpress.org/test/2015/11/12/wordpress-org-mobile-experience
 /#jp-carousel-3090.

 The entire experience is one that means you think the theme itself is
 broken even if a responsive theme. Twenty Sixteen is a prime example of
 this problem.

 It would be great to at least get previewing functional on other devices
 apart from desktop. At least solving the scrolling issue would be a good
 starting point.

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Comment (by dd32):

 I'm personally not able to duplicate this, although I'm not aware of
 anything that would've changed since it's been reported.

 On mobile devices the theme preview chrome does take up 80% of the screen
 on the first load, and once you collapse it, the themes act as responsive
 as they usually are.

 I'm not entirely sure there's much we can really do here, but I'll note
 that any improvements that are made in WordPress on the Theme browser
 should flow through to here too.

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