42444 - [RFE] Form zoom-in.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Form zoomin. For example, when you're trying to compose a 60+ line comment on
bugzilla, and your working in that 8 line height comment box, right clicking to
bring up the (currently non-exsistant) context menu, and selecting 'zoom-in'
would expand it, somehow. I haven't figured out the details yet, someone just
make it happen ;).

Comment 1

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Pushing this back. Waaaaay back. Mozilla 12.5-ish.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Mmmmm. Perhaps the textarea would have a `Resize ...' context menu item, which 
(when selected) would allow you to to drag the textarea borders to enlarge it?

Or perhaps just a `Edit Contents in New Window' context menu item, which opens 
a new window just for editing the textarea contents.

Comment 3

[Brendan Donohoe]

Or maybe someone can expand this comments field on bugzilla?  There are times 

when text fields aren't big enough, but I'm not sure a whole separate zoom-in 

mechanism is the way to go.  (It would make more sense to allow direct resizing 

of the widget within the page, reflowing as necessary, and then allowing web 

authors to specify NORESIZE if they want it fixed -- that would require some 

standards body approval, though.)



Resolving as LATER so we can think about the issue in a future version.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

reopening and reassigning to UI/DF default owner

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

brendan is gone...

Comment 6

[rbs]

I suggest WONTFIX. People can use their favorite editor and the old good 
copy/paste. Maybe all is need is more advertising of this option :-)

Comment 7

[Idcmp]

Then how about a context menu that lets us pop up our favourite $EDITOR with a
tmp file.  Would this make Jeremy happy too?

Comment 8

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

I'm not even sure I want this feature any more. Of course, i've been up for 
around 40 hours right now, which probably doesnt help my UI design thought 
process.

Seems to me launching an external editor would cause lots of problems. First 
off, mac/win dont have $EDITOR. second, how do you monitor the temp file to 
read back in? Lock mozilla until the editor returns?

Comment 9

[rbs]

Marking WONTFIX based on the discussion (which shows that the idea in this bug
needs to be formalized by W3C, or that launching an external editor would
cause lot of problems). Implementing will add a lot of clutter for little gain.
There is the copy-paste solution which works very well and which needs more
advertising if folks complain.

Comment 10

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...