191176 - Java applet on invisible / hidden IFRAME don't keep state

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Martin Krieger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-AT; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

When an IFRAME is made invisible, the applets on the page are unloaded. So the
state of the applet is lost, while the state of other elements on the page is kept.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load given Testcase
2. Confirm onLoad alert
3. Enter values in both the applet and the HTML input field
4. Press hide
5. Press show
Actual Results:  
The value entered into the applet is gone, the value entered into the HTML field
is kept.

Expected Results:  
Keep both applet and field values. (Or -not so good- clear both and fire new
onLoad event. But keep it consistent.)

Comment 1

[Martin Krieger]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 2

[Martin Krieger]

Attachment: File to see in IFRAME for testcase

Comment 3

[Martin Krieger]

Attachment: Applet for testcase

Comment 4

[Martin Krieger]

Attachment: Source for applet for testcase

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Martin Krieger]

Unchanged in Firefox 1.0.7 / SUN Java 1.5.0_04

Comment 7

[Bug Tracker]

Have you tried visibility:hidden?

Comment 8

[Donald Smith]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Have you tried visibility:hidden?

If an applet is placed inside a DIV and the position style is changed from absolute to static and back the applets are destroyed and restarted as well.

Comment 9

[ReleaseEngineer]

Joshua Xia, have you looked into this yet?

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still happens 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081905 Minefield/3.0a8pre


(In reply to comment #9)
> Joshua Xia, have you looked into this yet?

Joshua's address doesn't work.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: zip of testcase files

Comment 12

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Mass-closing bugs in the "OJI" component: OJI plugin integration was replaced with npruntime long ago, and these bugs appear to be irrelevant now. If there is in fact a real bug that remains, please file it new in the "Core" product, component "Plug-ins".