Closed Bug 244020 Opened 21 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Composer "Enter text to display for the link" is broken.

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: mbougon, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 In Composer's "Link Property" Dialogbox "Enter text to display for the link" is broken. The "OK" button never goes active black. It remains off in its inactive grey Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on the "Link" icon 2. Select an Anchor 3. Enter text under: "Enter text to display for the link" 4. Observe that "OK" remains dead (ie, grey) Actual Results: 4. Observe that "OK" remains dead (ie, grey) Expected Results: "OK" should turn black and become live.
Reproduced on Mozilla 1.8a2 build 2004052307 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040523 Confirming.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
xref bug 219662 -- same bug for mail composer, except the OK button will enable if the link text is typed first, then the anchor selected.
I don't understand. Let's say the Link Text is "foo" and let's say the OK button is enabled as soon as something is typed in Link Text text input. Now, if the user does not enter any value for Link Location and if the user clicks the OK button, then this should be the code added in the source: <a href="">foo</a> Do we really want this? We already know that Mozilla handles this type of link differently from other browsers like MSIE 5+. Shouldn't Composer prevent this type of markup code? If Composer does not add <a href="">foo</a>, then what should it add in the source? And how would such code addition meet the user's expectations? I'm just asking questions here.
How would such code addition meet the user's expectations ? As a long-time heavy user of Named Anchor links in Composer, my Very Strong expectation is this-- (1) If the user highlights "foo bar red" in his/her text, then the default for "Enter text to display for the link" should be "foo bar red" (like in Netscape) And the html code will be -- <a href="....">foo bar red</a> (2) If the user does *not* highlight any phrase in his/her text, and the anchor selected from the Named Anchor dropdown menu is #red_barron_fokker then the default for "Enter text to display for the link" should be "#red baron fokker" and that string will be inserted at the cursor location. (like in Netscape) And the html code will be -- <a href="....#red_baron_fokker">#red_baron_fokker</a> (like in Netscape) That is, my expectation is to continue to receive the same default as the Very Convenient default that exists in Netscape since its birth............ The second case is Extremely Convenient for creating an index list (typically, at the top of the page) from the Named Anchors (such as, "#red_baron_fokker") created along the text (typically while reading the text) I just described the existing Netscape defaults. Actually, my preference would be that, in the second case, the string inserted at the cursor be stripped of the"#", and thus the html code would be -- <a href="....#red_barron_fokker">red_barron_fokker</a> Thanks ! Michel
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Assignee: composer → nobody
QA Contact: composer
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state. If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way. If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar). If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state. Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614
Status: NEW → UNCONFIRMED
MASS-CHANGE: This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago. Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED. If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component. Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
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