80vh behaves strangely in Firefox about merlot HOT 1 CLOSED

Hi there! It seems that this is a longstanding, well-known bug in Firefox. Here's a bug report from a couple of decades ago and a ticket with more recent updates and movement from a few months ago.

There's also a related bug filed against Firefox for placement of padding in overflowing elements, ticket here, which seems relevant.

TLDR that I could gather from my reading is

1. The issue is not as severe on newer FF releases (on my macOS, FF 88) -- the padding's gone, but content is visible. You also pointed this out.

2. The Firefox team is treating this incompatibility with Chrome/Safari as a bug and fixing it in the next release or two

   

3. There seems to be a newly added fix to upcoming versions of Firefox (comment was 3 months old?) that will make Firefox match behavior with Webkit and Chrome.

Because of that, and because Merlot is primarily for my own use, I don't feel particular inclined to try to find a workaround to support Firefox's weird behavior (especially when it seems like Firefox might be shipping a fix soon -- it seems like GitHub is also affected by this bug). I feel slightly less guilty for this than I normally would, because it's still perfectly usable on modern versions of Firefox, albeit a little un-aesthetic :)

If you feel strongly, feel free to fork the repo and add a workaround to placate Firefox! I'm happy to answer questions to help you tweak it. If it works well, I might pull it in, but no guarantees.

On a different note, thanks for the recs on those Markdown editors. they look great. They're both local editors, though, and one of the big reasons I built Merlot is so I could edit from my iPad and revise on my laptop, and have a web app. (Another reason is the satisfaction of using your own tools.)

Certainly great inspiration though, thanks!

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