1217696 - The options of the select not vertical in vertical writing mode on android.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[siqinbilige]

Attachment: android_select_option_mongolian.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151014143721

Steps to reproduce:

access : http://www.mongolfont.com/test/firefox/select.html and click to display options.



Actual results:

The options of the select not vertical in vertical writing mode on android.
The mongolian script not rendering(blank).



Expected results:

The options of the select display vertical in vertical writing mode on android.
The mongolian script display correctly.

Comment 1

[siqinbilige]

Attachment: android_select_option_japanese.png

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

This is (presumably) because the <select> options are not rendered by Gecko but by the Fennec front-end code, and so they don't have access to the downloadable font Gecko is using, nor do they use Gecko's vertical-text layout.

I don't really know anything about the Fennec architecture, but I think that to fix this, we'd need to render the contents of the popup <select> list using a Gecko view instead of the native Android UI toolkit. No idea how feasible that is...

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

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