180973 - Bottom display of link URL being moused over is compressed if too long for window.

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Eric Walker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827

When the cursor is over a link, the link URL is displayed in the botom window
bar.  If the URL is too long to be fully displayed, some middle part of
it--selected I know not how--is chopped out and ellipsis dots inserted. 
Netscape instead showed as much of the URL, left to right, as would fit.  It
would be very convenient to have a user preference for three behaviors:

1. As now, show start and end of URL with middle parts elided.

2. Show as much of the leading part as will fit (old-style behavior).

3. Show as much of the trailing part as will fit.

Example: looking at Amazon.com pages--it would be nice to be able to mouse over
an entry in a search-hits list to get the Amazon ASIN that is a part of the URL
for the link without having to actually load the page; that used to work fine,
but now that part of the URL is in the elided block.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to any web page containing links that are very long URLs.
2.  Place the cursor over any such link.


Actual Results:  
The link URL displays in the form:

  http://yadda.yadda.com/yadda/ye...more/something.html

Expected Results:  
Displayed:

  http://yadda.yadda.com/yadda/yadda/moreyadda/yetmo

(Or other things, ideally depending on a user-prefs setting.)

This may not be a "bug", depending on one's expectations of what a "correct"
display should be.

Comment 1

[José Henrique F. Melman]

Maybe scrolling would be fine too, as a fourth option. (As Winamp does.)

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To XP Apps; this would require dynamically changing the "crop" attr on the
status bar....

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Not OS/2 specific

Comment 4

[Jan Ruzicka]

The attachment 162974 [details] for bug 265551 can be a test case.
Warning on Mac some of the links don't show at all.

Comment 5

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".