195854 - Browser expands larger then screen size

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Travis Chase]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (BeOS; U; BeOS BePC; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030228
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (BeOS; U; BeOS BePC; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030228

In the past couple weeks i have noticed webpages here and there that expand
larger then my current screen size,  The above link is a sample of one of those,

I find this bug extreamly anoying simply because it usually happens unexpectedly
and its difficult to the browser down to a decent size when it happenes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on above link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Browser expands beyond my 1024 x 768 screen size

Expected Results:  
Browser should stay the same size or a size within reason

Comment 1

[Travis Chase]

Sorry I forgot to add I clicked the link off
http://www.gameboyadvance.com/downloads.jsp, 

It only happens when a link is opened in a new window.

Comment 2

[Travis Chase]

I think its the way the link is
#<a href="wp_smw_1024.jsp" onclick="openCenteredWindow(this.href, 'wallpaper',
1024, 768, 0, 0, 0); return false;"><img src="images/btn_arrow_d_ff6600.gif"
width="7" height="7" alt="" border="0" hspace="2" />1024x768</a><br />#

Perhaps there is a better way for Mozilla to handle how it opens a specific
resolution.

Comment 3

[Sergei Dolgov]

I also met such situations. There are 2 problems here:
1) Border size isn't counted yet (and reported) for BeZilla. Maybe due to some
unimplemented method in nsWindow.
2)Title bar don't belong to BWindow thus also is aout of counting.

Simplest trick to avoid some problems is filling stub implementation of
NS_METHOD nsWindow::ConstrainPosition().
E.g., simplicistic example here:
NS_METHOD nsWindow::ConstrainPosition(PRBool aAllowSlop, PRInt32 *aX, PRInt32 *aY)
{
	if (eWindowType_dialog != mWindowType && eWindowType_toplevel != mWindowType)
		return NS_OK;
	*aX=2;
	*aY=28;
	return NS_OK;
}

So window cannot be postitioned on Create in way where Title bar is outside
screen. This should allow to drag window in some resizable position.


But current trick os opening in another workspace Worksapces application and
move BeZilla using this app.

Comment 4

[Paul]

Is this really a bug, or, does the offending page actually try to resize the
window larger than the screen, so you can't move/resize it?

Plus, I think there is code in the "big" widget patch, that may fix this?

Sergei, thoughts?

Comment 5

[Sergei Dolgov]

as far as i remember, implementation of ConstrainPosition was submitted by Paul,
wondering if it was checked in tree.
Usually i have some things disabled in Advanced->Script&Plugins, like changing
existing window size or raise/lower - against moron web-designers. But for test
purpose i enabled those and couldn't reproduce bug with my version of libwidget.

Comment 6

[Sergei Dolgov]

cannot reproduce anymore. NS_METHOD nsWindow::ConstrainPosition() was checked in
long ago.

Comment 7

[Travis Chase]

Sergei, thanks for closing this, I don't have a x86 computer running BeOS anymore,
Since my BeOS computer died. and had no way to test this,