101796 - Tabs should have static width

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

I find the fact that the tab width changes depending on <TITLE> length very
annoying.  On a slow connection, or with slow loading pages, while loading pages
one might want to switch tabs before the page loads.  If you click a tab just
after the page loads the <TITLE> and changes tab size, the chances of clicking
the wrong tab are high.
Parts of the user interface should not be move unless the user tells it to move.
This is a greater problem for certain physically challenged people with slower
response time.  They might welcome the tabs idea but get frustrated by this
quite easily.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

I only see this when there are so many <tab>s that they jostle for space.
Perhaps if the <tabs> specified equalsize="true" it would resolve this.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

Sorry, I meant equalsize="always" like this:
<xul:tabs flex="1" equalsize="always">
  <xul:tab class="tabbrowser-tab" flex="1" crop="center"/>
</xul:tabs>

This forces all the tabs take up an equal amount of space, title independent.
Note that I removed the maxwidth which conflicts with equalsize.

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Attachment: screenshot showing equal size tabs

Comment 4

[David Hyatt]

Attachment: Make tabs static width.

Comment 5

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 51661 [details] [diff] [review]
Make tabs static width.

r=bryner

Comment 6

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

working nicely here.

Comment 7

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Wade: please don't mark other people's bugs fixed.  This is not fixed (yet)
because it hasn't recieved super review yet and hasn't been checked in to CVS yet.

Re-opening.

Comment 8

[kurros (Wade Majors)]

Christopher: it *has* been checked in. 10/1/2001 at 23:28 by hyatt.

Comment 9

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

odd, I typed that last night while Bugzilla was down and i don't remember
re-submitting those comments this morning.  Not sure how that happened, but I
didn't see the checkin in bonsai when I typed that out last night.

Anyway, I just built this morning and indeed it does work fine.