209078 - javascript pop-up window not resizeable & no scroll bars

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[geo. anderson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I have seen this one once in a while, never reported it as I assumed others
would have done so.  The general problem (NT4.0/sp6a) is that clicking a link
that uses javascript to make a pop-up window results in the pop-up being oddly
shaped (tall and narrow) and neither resizeable nor with scroll bars.  So it is
impossible to read what is in most of the window.  These are usually
send-a-message-t0-us type windows.

You will have to register as a user at the forum link above, but then go to
someone's message and attempt to send an email to the user.  Or send a message
to user durequip -- that's me, so it is harmless.  You should be able to
duplicate the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to forum
2. register a username
3. attempt to email or foward a topic to another member, like "durequip"

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
resizeable & with scroll bars as needed

Comment 1

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

I see the same behavior at http://www.theagitator.com. No registration is
required. Click on one of the "comments" links (which uses javascript to open a
new popup window). The popup window has no scrollbars and is not resizable. In
IE6, the popup window has scrollbars and is resizable. I am using a
post-Firebird 0.7 nightly build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Comment 2

[Jon Henry]

Assuming the first page is essentially the same as the one referenced by Chris,
the problem is invalid syntax in their call to window.open. They specify the
features of the window (scrollbar, resizable, etc.) in a list separated by
spaces where JavaScript requires them to be separated by commas. I guess IE is
more tolerant of this. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a duplicate bug on
this, but I couldn't find it after searching for a while.

Comment 3

[Jon Henry]

This is invalid in my opinion, they're using illegal syntax. If someone thinks
Mozilla should accept this, perhaps a new enhancement bug could be filed.