215196 - mozilla includes area used by the sidebar when reporting window size to server.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Sidebar, defect)

Description

[Douw Coetzer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030801
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030801

When the http server inquires the size of the viewport, to make it's content fit
nicely, mozilla returns a size INCLUDING that used by the sidebar. So the page
NEVER FITS the display if the sidebar is visible. It may also be that the page
instructs mozilla to resize it's window. Obviously mozilla must make separate
provision for the sidebar display space. At present it does not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Ensure a reasonable width sidebar is displayed
2.Load the given URL (or any other similar one)
3.Observe
Actual Results:  
The page loads and resizes the mozilla window. The "made to measure" page is
then displayed in the tab or new window but it does not fit due to the sidebar
eating up a portion of the window. Observe a horizontal scrollbar (unintended by
the page author)
Close sidebar - problem exactly fixed


Expected Results:  
Subtracted the area used to display the sidebar from the area reported to the
server. Alternatively added the area required for the sidebar to the requested
window size.

Comment 1

[Ryan Castle]

When the sidebar is active, stylesheet-only sites seem to use a different page
offset to tabled sites. Here is an example [http://mike.essl.com/].

Broken as of Mozilla 1.2.1 (Gecko/20021130) and Firebird 0.6 (Gecko/20030516).

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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