226315 - <JAVA height=50% .... > the height is ignored in Firebird 0.7 and Mozilla 1.5

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 211530

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[mark olive]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

The APPLET height appears to be fixed at about 200 pixels regardless of the
value in height.  When height is set to a relative %.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/oji/test7.html
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Actual Results:  
Applet height fixed to about 200 pixels

Expected Results:  
Scaled the applet

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

The testcase is actually incorrect in what it says should happen.

How the browser renders the page at present is actually the correct behavior.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211530 ***

Comment 2

[mark olive]

This is a duplicate agreed.

But it is not helpful behavior. 
If a page has no real height then frames specifying a 50% or 100% height would
not work either.  There would be no point in specifying a height in percent for
any object.  This is a nonsense, shorely in this type of case the height should
be taken to be the height of the browser window.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This is a nonsense, shorely in this type of case the height should
> be taken to be the height of the browser window.

It is, actually, in recent builds (more recent than 1.5), in quirks mode.  Not
on this testcase, though, because the <applet>s are inside an absolutely
positioned div, and the lookup for a parent with set size stops when we hit an
abs pos box (to be compatible with IE; see bug 221784).

In standards mode, of course, none of this crap applies and we follow the CSS spec.