Closed Bug 212538 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Distributed Proofreaders spellchecker no longer works since Moz v1.4

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(Core :: Web Painting, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 225811

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(Reporter: mcenaney, Assigned: roc)

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Details

(Keywords: regression)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030705
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030705

The spellchecker function of the proofreading/editing page at Distributed
Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php)that worked fine with previous
versions of Mozilla no longer works with v1.4. It worked fine with v1.31 and
earlier. Sorry, but this only can be checked out by someone with an account at
pgdp who is logged in so as to open a page to proofread. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in at Distributed Proofreaders.
2. Select a page from a project to proofread.
3. Click the button to spellcheck the page.

Actual Results:  
A blank page (frame) is displayed. Checking the source for the frame shows the
source for what should be displayed (An example of this source can be viewed here:
http://www.speakeasy.org/~mcenaney/DP-spellcheck-Frame_source-example).

Expected Results:  
A two frame window displaying the OCR image of the original page in the upper
frame and a spellcheck editing function in the lower frame should have been 
displayed. This expected result can be seen by repeating these steps using
Mozilla v1.31 or earlier.

I've reported this on the DP forum in the General section under the header
"Spellchecking in Moz hosed?". There was a couple of confirming followups and a
suggestion to submit a bug report here; thus here I am. I'm uncertain that this
IS actually a Mozilla bug as opposed to a DP site bug. 

Note that the problem does NOT occur using:
- versions of Mozilla prior to v1.4
- MSIE (running under the Crossover Office version of Wine)
- Galeon v1.2.7

The problem DOES occur using:
- Mozilla 1.4*
- Firebird 1.6**
- Opera v7.11 (which makes me think this may be a wasted bug report)

*Mozilla was compiled from source under Redhat 9. 
.mozconfig contained:
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --enable-calendar

**Firebird was compiled the day 1.6 was released from source thusly:
wget http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-source.tar.bz2
tar -xjf mozilla-source.tar.bz2
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org:/cvsroot checkout
mozilla/browser mozilla/toolkit

.mozconfig contained:
export MOZ_PHOENIX=1
mk_add_options MOZ_PHOENIX=1
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --disable-jsd
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse,387"
ac_add_options --enable-strip

I'm not sure that this is specific to Linux as I don't have another platform to
test on. The others who chirped in on the DP forum were running Linux as well.

Sorry if this belongs in a javascript section but if it does, I couldn't figure
out which one.
Confirming and setting OS->All (I see this on 1.4final, W2k).

-> Layout:View Rendering. I think this is essentially a duplicate of bug 170011,
but I'll let someone with better CSS-fu confirm that.

Attaching a (much!) simplified testcase.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Browser-General → Layout: View Rendering
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Attached file Simplified testcase
In this testcase, the BODY has overflow:auto, which means it should provide
scrollbars to view it's contained content. However, the IMG within the BODY is
absolutely positioned, so the BODY is not the containing block for the IMG.

The result (which you can verify with the DOM inspector) is that the BODY is
shrunk to essentially nothing, the IMG is placed correctly, but there's no way
to scroll to it.

See also bug 170011 comment 7.
regression, since this works in 1.3.
Keywords: regression
Hardware: PC → All
re: comment 2, "there's no way to scroll to it"

I should really read comments before posting them.  There's no problem scrolling
around the view; it's just that the IMG appears to be clipped to the body.
Attached file Better Testcase
Alternatively, could this be a duplicate of bug 131475 or bug 79315.
Still a problem with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Depends on: 170011
-> default contatcts (was assigned to general@browser.bugs)
Assignee: general → roc
QA Contact: general → ian
Still a problem in 1.5 and Firebird 0.7 on Windows 2000. The very small page
that I have included below displays nothing.

And I'd agree that it looks very much like bug 170011.

<html>
  <body style="overflow:auto;">
    <div style="position:absolute;">aaa</div>
  </body>
</html>
I'm now fairly convinced that this is caused by bug 225811 (which has a fix).
Depends on: 225811
Worksforme in a current build.... Marking duplicate based on that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 225811 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Component: Layout: View Rendering → Layout: Web Painting
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