122424 - Printouts of blinking text not consistant

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Jay Farrell]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    20020114

While running the Printing tests, I noticed that the output text that blinks is 
sometimes printed and sometimes it's not.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. follow the steps for:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-
end/testcases/printing/charactertest.html

and print off output for each test (about 9 diff pages)

Actual Results:  about 1/2 show the text that was blinking, the other 1/2 did 
not

Expected Results:  Blinking text should either be printed or not on a 
consistant basis.
(I prefer to always print it)

I saw this on both OpenVMS and Linux;

Comment 1

[sujay]

I don't even see text blinking on the web page....

Comment 2

[Jay Farrell]

The given link was for the test, not the web page. Since the problem 
happens about 50% of the time, I didn't want to give the link to just the 
web page because I was afraid that you may not reproduce the problem. I thought 
it better to give the link to the test I was running, and then have you re-run 
the complete test to see the problem. Hope this helps. 

  

Comment 3

[sujay]

I cannot test this because currently in the browser, text does not
even blink at all....so I cannot test printing blink text.

Petersen is gonna write up a bug report on the blink text problem.

Comment 4

[Christine Hoffman]

Testing on current builds, blinking is not working (further investigating
whether there is an open bug for this). However, even if it was, I assume that
printing would either print text all the time or no text at all (when I
investigate whether there is a bug on BLINK, I will then find out what the
implementation should be for printing). As far as the testcase, I have contacted
that QA department to revise it to eliminate printing 'blinking' text. 
Marking this bug invalid. I will file a bug on BLINK and or printing
implementation if necessary after my investigation. 

Comment 5

[Christine Hoffman]

Reopened #89065 (blink not working).

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Once blinking is fixed again, we can test printing to determine what it is doing.

Comment 7

[sujay]

verified.