110068 - Composer cannot edit properties for an <img> with a .BMP image SRC.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement)

Description

[TucsonTester1]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    20011109

When trying to open a bitmap image in Composer it will give you the following 
error: "This type of page can't be edited".  After you click on the "ok" 
button, the Composer closes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open the Netscape browser
2.Go to the following web site "http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-
end/testcases/composer/imgmap.png".
3.Click File>Save page as
4.Change the Save in location to the desktop
5.Rename the file to "Dog.bmp"
6.Click Save
7.Open Composer
8.Click the Open icon
9.Change the look in to desktop and choose "dog.bmp"
10.Click Open

Actual Results:  Gives you the error message: "This type of page can't be 
edited"

Expected Results:  I expected the image to be displayed.

After repeating steps 1-7 try the following:
Click the Image icon
Click Choose File
Click the "dog.bmp" that is located on the desktop
Click Open
Type "DOG" in the Alternative Text: box

Results:
You cannot click on the OK button to open the image

I am submitting this as a request for Enhancement, I think bitmaps should be 
able to be used in Composer.

Comment 1

[Gilles Durys]

First part of your bug is normal.
Composer is used to edit html pages thus it opens html page.
As for inserting bmp files, bug 18502 is now fixed, maybe Composer should be
able to insert bmp (for parity with other format) although I recommend using the
usual format (png, jpg, gif).

Comment 2

[michael wendell]

I feel that if the Browser can view BMP's, then Composer should be able to
insert them.  Also, if you view a page in the Browser that has BMP's, and try to
edit it in Composer, it will let you, and the BMP's will show up.  But if you
try to double click on the BMP's to bring up the properties, the OK button does
not light up allowing you to make any changes. 

Comment 3

[Charles Manske]

If the Browser can display BMP images as the SRC of an <img> tag, then we can 
easily allow that in Composer, though I think we might want to popup a warning
dialog that it's a very bad idea to do so.
Composer will not directly open any image file -- that won't be changed.
(I believe the browser is actually making a temporary HTML page and inserting an
img element in order to display an image, thus there's no permanent HTML file
available to edit.)
I'm not sure how much of a priority this should be.

Comment 4

[Charles Manske]

Tweaking the Summary

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is just a matter of adding the bmp type to the list of types composer knows
it can handle, if I understand the issue correctly.

Comment 6

[Kathleen :Brade]

I think Charley fixed this bug yesterday.  You should now be able to click "OK"
in the image dialog after having selected a *.bmp image.  Unfortunately we don't
warn the user that *.bmp format isn't a universal web format type.

Comment 7

[Kathleen :Brade]

fixed

Comment 8

[michael wendell]

Verified on build 2001113003.

Comment 9

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign bugs in case they are later reopened