245632 - Compose html email with a smiley, can enter text within the smiley's <span>

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[John Griffiths]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601 MultiZilla/1.6.4.0b

An email composed in Mozilla with a smile in it and some text typed after the
smile. Send it. Then display the sent email. The smile and all the text after
the smile does not display. The source for the inserted smile looks like this.
Notice that the span for the smile encompasses all the text following the
insertion point of the smile. Also there is an extra span inserted.

 regrets about Becky. <span
 class="moz-smiley-s6"><span> :-[ <br>
<br>
God bless and keep you.<br>
John<br>
</span></span>
</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Compose email
2.Insert a smile
3.Type more text in email
4. send email
5. Display sent email in Sent folder.

Actual Results:  
With the message display set to "Original HTML" the smile and none of the text
following the smile displays.

regrets about Becky. 

With the message display set to "Simple HTML" the smile and text display but the
smile is the character representation.

regrets about Becky.  :-[

God bless and keep you.
John

With the message display set to "Plain Text" the smile does not display but the
text does display.

regrets about Becky.

God bless and keep you.
John

Expected Results:  
With the message display set to "Original HTML" the smile and all of the text
following the smile should display.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with:
  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040604

In order for the text to disappear when viewed As Original, I have to reposition 
the cursor while typing, back between the "mouth" character (parenthesis or 
whatever) and the space that trails it. That puts the newly typed text inside 
the smiley's <span>, which causes it to not be displayed when viewed As Original 
HTML.

This behavior is new relative to 1.6; in that version, it is simply not possible 
to position the cursor such that typing enters text within the range of the 
<span>.  I don't have a 1.7RC build installed to compare...

Viewing a broken message (from 1.8) As Original, in 1.6, displays the smiley but 
not the text that's included in the <span>.

(The nested <span>, by the way, is also there in 1.6-composed mail but doesn't 
seem to cause a problem.)

The *other* bug is that smileys don't display at all when viewed As Original, 
even if the message is well formed (i.e. composed with 1.6).
I've opened bug 245730 for this

xref bug 244799, bug 182941.
Could this have anything to do with the problem under discussion at bug 235223?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Just discovered part of the problem: smileys are now part of the theme, so if 
the theme doesn't have them, they won't be displayed -- see bug 238208.

It turns out that during composition with an incomplete theme, entering the 
smiley displays as the smiley text, rather than the graphic.  (I should have 
caught that while testing for this bug...)  Because the graphic isn't displayed, 
you can still end up in this situation where text is being typed within the 
span.

Because this can be easily fixed by using an updated theme, I'm dropping the 
severity of this bug -- but it's still a bit of a problem, since message text 
can be inadvertantly hidden if the recipient supports the smiley-spans.

Perhaps some sort of style could be applied to the smiley-spans to set them 
apart, so you can tell when you're typing inside them?

Comment 3

[John Griffiths]

Changed the theme to Mozilla Classic (I was using Sky Pilot). Now the smilie
displays, but the text after the smilie still does not display. 

Since the work around only works for the smilie but not the text which is the
more important of the issues, I think the severity should be normal and not minor.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The workaround works for composing the message; that is why this is minor.  If 
you've got a complete theme, it's not possible to create a message where text is 
entered within the smiley-span.

The workaround for message display of a broken message is to 
  View | Body | As Simple.

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 302234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[John Griffiths]

Changing to FIXED. I use Firefox and Thunderbird and do not have mozilla or seamonkey installed. Works properly in Thunderbird 1.5.0.9.