Sortable Position Not Calculating Correctly

[arpowers]

I appears that an attempt was made to make sortables calculate their position better.

This commit: ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/commit/bae06d2b1ef6bbc946dce9fae91f68cc41abccda#commitcomment-2141597

Unfortunately, it appears that this new calc system does not work at all for large draggables. Often the calculated 'drop spot' is off screen and this commit renders the plugin useless.

I recommend a reversion to the previous code until an option or more versatile system can be implemented.

A couple 20 second vids to further explain:

This is how its supposed to work: ​http://screencast.com/t/ZPHr5MW5YQ

This is how it works with the new methodology (it doesn't!) ​http://screencast.com/t/EbshygSNXmY

[mikesherov]

Thanks! Can you please provide a fiddle as well!

[tj.vantoll]

@arpowers You can use ​http://jsfiddle.net/ZgAqH/ to get started. Open the link and click to "Fork" (in the top menu) to get started.

Note also that #8792 was reported as a regression caused by the referenced commit.

[arpowers]

Alright, took me a minute but I got it duped.

Here is the JS fiddle: ​http://jsfiddle.net/arpowers/a7rxv/1/

Seems similar to the problem mentioned in the regression.

[arpowers]

I can verify that it is the nested elements that are also floated ...

[tj.vantoll]

Duplicate of #8792.
@arpowers Thanks for taking the time to make the test case. This indeed looks like the same problem as #8792 so I'm going to close this one as a duplicate.