190472 - window.sidebar.visible=0 does not work

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Jerry Geis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I can do the window.personalbar.visible=0
and window.locationbar.visible=0

but I cannot do

window.sidebar.visible=0

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
the sidebar did not hide.

Expected Results:  
there should be a way in javascript to hide the sidebar.

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

Browser, not engine ---> DOM Level 0

Apparently, |visible| is not a property of |window.sidebar|.
I'm not a DOM expert, but I tried these javascript URLS:

 javascript: alert('visible' in window.personalbar)  ---->  true
 javascript: alert('visible' in window.locationbar)  ---->  true
 javascript: alert('visible' in window.sidebar)      ---->  false

Comment 2

[Jerry Geis]

 I agree with you that visible is not part of the property and I am saying that it should be. Perhaps was it overlooked? How else to I "automatically" remove it from the page I want to display?  Jerry 

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

imho, you do not.  The browser belongs to the user, not to you; if the user
wants to have a sidebar open, he should be able to do that.

Comment 4

[Jerry Geis]

 Boris, 
 
I disagree, If there are properties like window.locationbar.visible and javascript 
has the ability to make it visible or not how is that different than the  
window.sidebar.visible? Sure the locationbar and the sidebar BOTH are user controlled 
properties but my point is locationbar has the visisble property so why doesnt 
sidebar? 
 
I am actually running the browser with the -remote unix command. It is a great thing 
that mozilla has this. However, in my case there is no USER. I need to start the browser, 
creat a profile (no problem there), Turn off the locationbar and turn off the sidebar. 
In my case they are not needed. 
 
Thanks, 
 
Jerry 

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 6

[Vitali]

(In reply to comment #3)
> imho, you do not.  The browser belongs to the user, not to you; if the user
> wants to have a sidebar open, he should be able to do that.

I agree to this, but in Mozilla Preferences there is area Allow Jscript to
hide/show status bar, etc. This doesn't work, regardless what that options is
set to. Now, I propose to put there also allow jscritp to hide menu, address
bar, or just one thing, toolbars. Do you think this can be done?

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It can.  If someone writes a patch and gets UI owner approval, it may even be
accepted.

Comment 8

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 9

[Anne (:annevk)]

We want to remove this in bug 1428302.