Closed Bug 20318 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Vertical & horizontal scrollbars disappear if window too small (narrow, short)mostfreq

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
General
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55368
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: biswapesh_chatterjee, Assigned: danm.moz)

References

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Details

(Keywords: helpwanted) 

System: Build 1999112908 on WinNT SP5 (PII with 64 MB RAM)
Overview: If the browser window is made small enough so that the mozilla icon
at the top-right corner starts to hide itself, then the vertical scrollbar
disappears though there is enough space to display it.
Test Case: Go to http://mozilla.org/ . Start reducing the window size by
dragging the top right corner towards the bottom-left corner. As the Mozilla
icon starts to disappear, so does the scrollbar.
Ecpected Result: The scrollbar should be visible.
Other info: This problem was not present in M11 build.
Assignee: shuang → leger
Component: UE/UI → Browser-General
reassign it to browser general category. It is not a UI design bug for now.
The cause of this bug is quite simple: the scrollbars appear within the content
area as specified by the XUL, not at the window edge. And the minimum size of
the XUL sets where the scrollbars will be.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Yes.  Marking Bug Verified/Invalid
Whiteboard: REOPEN?
leger: I'm not sure that the bug _is_ invalid. If the window is too small for
the chrome, shouldn't we still be able to see the scroll bars for the content?
Or at least have a _minimum_ window size so that this problem never occurs?
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
OS: Windows NT → All
Hardware: PC → All
I concur. reopening. The behavior is the same on all platforms. On Mac there is a minimum
width but the vertical scrollbar disappears even before you reach it. This is basically a limitation
in the design. cc'ing trudelle so maybe a xul type can take a look.
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Clearing INVALID resolution due to reopen.
Assignee: leger → danm
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Target Milestone: M16
Yes, there needs to be a minimum size where the window still has all it's basic
controls visible and working. reassigning to danm as p3 for m16
Mass-moving all M16 non-feature bugs to M17, which we still consider to be 
part of beta2
Target Milestone: M16 → M17
moving to m30, helpwanted
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: M17 → M30
Mass-moving all M20-M30 XPToolkit bugs to Future
Target Milestone: M30 → Future
*** Bug 39738 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Testing with 2000-09-12-08-M18 on WinNT, the exact point at which the scrollbars
no longer (completely) display varies by theme, but beyond a theme-specific
minimum content-area size, the scrollbars get clipped. Very odd to see half
or one-eighth of a scrollbar.

Quoting from bug 39738,
  ------- Additional Comments From Jesse Ruderman 2000-05-28 14:29 -------
  This isn't just about the vertical scrollbars -- the entire content area has a 
  minimum width.  If you reduce the width of the browser window beyond the point 
  where the vertical scrollbar disappears, you'll notice that you can drag the 
  horizontal scrollbar farther than it looks like you can.
From the discussion here, the proposed fix - enforcing a minimum size where all 
the controls are visible - should fix that problem too.

Setting severity to minor: there is always an obvious and easy workaround
(unless the display is too small to contain a Mozilla window sized to show
all controls...but that's beyond the scope of this bug).
Severity: normal → minor
Summary: Scrollbar disappears if window is made small enough → Vertical & horizontal scrollbars disappear if window too small (narrow, short)
Whiteboard: REOPEN?
*** Bug 52070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
couldn't this be solved by not making the toolbars and the browser window in 
the same xul box. It seems to me that just making sure that no box wrapps both 
the toolbar and the browserbox would solve this...
*** Bug 52735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 55530 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 56949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 50405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 58902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 58902 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
dup bug 39738 had 3 dups itself:
bug 41432, bug 44441, bug 52378
In addition 6 other bugs are marked dup directly of this one:
bug 52070, bug 52735, bug 55530, bug 56949, bug 50405, bug 58902.

10 indepedant dups in all. Adding mostfreq keyword.
Keywords: mostfreq
Summary: Vertical & horizontal scrollbars disappear if window too small (narrow, short) → Vertical & horizontal scrollbars disappear if window too small (narrow, short)mostfreq
I recommend reading bug 55368 for instructions on how to fix this one.
It seems fairly easy.
Fabian.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55368 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
verified duplicate.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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