104220 - Shorten long title names when saving files on a Mac

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[TucsonTester2]

Build ID: 20011009

On a Mac composer does not save a document as an html file if you have long
title names.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Composer
2.Click on the save button
3.At the title prompt window type in: This is a very long page title to use
4.Click ok and click save
5.Open the file you just saved in the browser or composer

Actual Results:
Composer will alert you that the type of page you are opening can not be edited.
Then it will prompt you to download the file.  In the browser it will prompt you
to download the file.

Expected Results:
I would expect that Composer would shorten the title of the html document so
that the html extension could be added to the end of the file name.

Comment 1

[Syd Logan]

reassigning to browser for triage. this is a general problem in file picker.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

We have a component for this called "File Handling". 

Comment 3

[Andrew Thompson]

Hrm, well the correct solution is to implement long filename support. 

The limit on HFS+ volumes on mac os 9 and X is 255 chars, not the old 32 char
limit, except that we don't support the right APIs yet.

Is this bug then to do truncation for title's > 255 chars (which presumably
applys XP on Windows and Unix too) or is it INVALID or WONTFIX ?

Comment 4

[michael wendell]

Confirming, I see this problem on both OSX and OS 9.1.

Comment 5

[Andreas Premstaller]

If this is just to support longer file names on Mac, isn't it a dupe of bug 89064?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

conrad/steve, would this be the same as bug 89064?

Comment 7

[Frankie]

Long file names work in Mach-O.

If you prefer to call this an OS 8/9 problem, it should either be duped to bug
95481 or marked WONTFIX.

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

Verified