178991 - BiDi: Unclickable links if near neutral characters e.g. parentheses, bullets

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Thamer Mahmoud]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021101
  
Both World/Arabic and World/Hebrew are effected by this bug. 

This is mouse related, as it doesn't apply if using the Keyboard for 
navigation (i.e. Tab then Enter works fine)


1. Visit http://dmoz.org/World/Arabic/
2. Try clicking on a category (under the "Top: World: Arabic" line)

Actual Results: Links cannot be clicked and no hand cursor.
Expected Results: Normal links behavior.

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Confirming and taking.

Comment 2

[peter gervai]

Same on linux platform; Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b)
Gecko/20030130

(I'm just glad that I was able to find this bug, preventing double dubmission.)

Comment 3

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Attachment: A slim testcase

I've just encountered this problem, and I thought a testcase would benefit the
bug description. This testcase has no Hebrew or Arabic text - the "direction:
rtl" is enough to screw up the clickability. Note the first (rightmost)
parenthesis points to link1, the rest of the line to link3.

Comment 4

[Christopher Whitt]

dmoz is a top100 site, so adding keyword.

Comment 5

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

I don't see this behavior on latest builds.

You are welcome to reopen if you do see this again.

Comment 6

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Bug remains in effect, same as alqays, with build 2004-07-30-13. Will try Linux
later on. Please reopen.

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Maybe i'm missing something:

Is there a linke on this page:
http://dmoz.org/World/Hebrew

or in the testcase tha isn't clickable for you?

(My UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040723
Firefox/0.9.1+)

Comment 8

[Eyal Rozenberg]

It seems the layout in dmoz.org has changed since this bug was first reported,
but the testcase exhibits the problem. My comment #3 remains in effect.

Comment 9

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Ye... but it wasn't what i got from the bug summary, we need a better description.

Comment 10

[Thamer Mahmoud]

Although dmoz changed layout, this bug is still perfectly reproducible with my
recent firefox build. 

Try clicking on the links below the Arabic categories (i.e. where it says
"Regional:Africa:Regions:North Africa" in english). If these links are clickable
to you than please mention your build date and mark this bug as worksforme. I'm
seeing this on linux too, by the way.

In any case, I think Eyal's testcase is more suitable to the somewhat related
Bug 197955. Considering the striking similarities to that bug, perhaps this
testcase was attached here by mistake?

Comment 11

[Eyal Rozenberg]

*** Bug 197955 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Attachment: testcase from dupe bug 197955

Adding a slimmer version of the testcase from the dupe. Note that:

- Bug manifests itself even though the paragraph is LTR
- The invalid link does not cover only the area of the other two links, but
also the area between them (artifically enlarged with  's	- the bug
remains in effect without them as well).

Comment 13

[Prognathous]

*** Bug 283668 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 300355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 307697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Uri Bernstein]

*** Bug 307673 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

Hallo!

please see bug 179393 comment 11 and bug 179393 comment 12
bug 179393 images between two input fields are displayed in the wrong order
and the attachment there
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=206193
title of the attachment:
screen dump relating to rendering of "non-textual entities" - difference between Firefox and IE

I would be happy to know any workaround and answers to the questions posted there.
Thanks for your support in advance.

best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Comment 18

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

*** Bug 322040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Uri Bernstein]

Fixed by the fix for bug 299065.

Comment 22

[Ido Beeri]

This bug is certainly NOT fixed. Just take a look at "A slim testcase" again. Please un-resolve this bug!

Comment 23

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Ido, what version did you test with? This is fixed in nightly builds and the betas of Firefox 3. It is not fixed in any version of Firefox 2.

Comment 24

[Ido Beeri]

Aha. My apologies then. I was thrown off by the date of the fix (2006-02).