115347 - In message composer, text sometimes goes invisible.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 97674

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Roger D]

When I'm composing e-mail messages in formatted mode, typically when I do a big
cut to remove some quoted material from a message I'm replying to, sometimes
(maybe one time in 20) a chunk of the text remaining in the compose window after
the cut will go invisible: it's still there, and if I scroll down and up again
(or cover the window with another and then reveal it again) to hide and reshow
the text, it gets redrawn, but until I do that it can't be seen. It looks like
some kind of repaint problem: possibly the code hasn't figured out that the text
needs to be repainted until I do something to force it to do so. 

Since the mailer is about the only place I sue the HTML composer, I don't know
if this is a general problem with the HTML composer, or is specific to its use
in mail. I use the mailer on both Mac and Windows - I think this problem occurs
on both, but I haven't kept careful track, and it might be only on Mac or only
on Windows. I'll keep an eye on it, and next time it happens I'll update this
bug with better platform information.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

reassign to editor core

Comment 2

[sujay]

Roger, this was fixed...you must be using an old build..
can you upgrade to soemthing newer? thanks...

Comment 3

[Roger D]

I'm using Netscape 6.2, i.e. the current commercial release, specifically:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 

(though I've also seen the same problem on Mac with 6.2, and I seem to recall
seeing it with 6.1 as well). I'm glad to be told that this bug is fixed in
Mozilla, but I don't normally run development builds, so I guess I'll have to
wait for 6.3 or 6.5 or whatever the next release gets called.

Possibly this bug is a duplicate of some other bug (that is itself presumably
now FIXED), and should be marked as such?

Comment 4

[kinmoz]

As sujay pointed out this is fixed on the TRUNK. 6.2 is based on the 
MOZILLA_0_9_4_BRANCH which does not have the fix for bug 97674.

Marking as a dup of 97674.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97674 ***

Comment 5

[sujay]

verified.