117164 - Repaint Page menu/context menu item

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74349

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Hessentswey]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20011226
BuildID:    2001122603

Refresh Page menu/context menu item should be useful to repaint page without
reloading it.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

MSIE uses 'Refresh' when Mozilla uses 'Reload'. I think that using 'Refresh' to
mean repaint would be confusing to ex-MSIE users.

Comment 2

[Alexander Hessentswey]

Well let it will be "Repaint".

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->UI design

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Why would this be useful?  Repainting manually should never be necessary.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

No, on the contrary. Sometime you need to do a repaint when the display is bit
messed up. Black lines in the images for instance, or artifacts when scrolling
while a page is still loading. But most common users won't understand this, only
developers.

On my Mac, I've always used Windowshade to quickly rollup and down the window
(that's a quadruple-click on the title bar). On Windows and Unix, I use a
minimize and a maximize, but that's a bit more difficult.

Comment 6

[Alexander Hessentswey]

What about completely rebuilding a pege without getting it from a server? Not
only the part currently visible, but all the page?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

[e-mail]: So we need this to work around existing mozilla 
bugs?  That seems like a bad idea.

Alexander: what do you mean by "reconstruct"?  What you're saying sounds like 
"reload" to me... ("reload" does not hit the server, necessarily; shift-reload 
does).

Comment 8

[Alexander Hessentswey]

And what does Reload and Refresh in Communicator?

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As far as I can tell, redraws the browser UI and content area under Windows.  I 
don't recall such a menuitem in Unix communicator, but can't check at the 
moment.  No idea about Mac.

The windows version seems like a pointless waste of menu space to me...

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74349 ***