254205 - Plugins not dynamically re-sizeable via javascript ".width=" or ".style.width="

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Ken Johanson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.1) Gecko/20040707

The follwing two javascript/DOM call variants do not work:
window.document.getElementById("RVOCX").width=640;
window.document.getElementById("RVOCX").style.width=640;

The do actually set the new value, but the plugin does not change size.

These call do work on at least one other browser (ie), but not apparently on
Mozilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




This may seem like a trivial function, however without it a page-reload is
required, which has the obviousy effect of re-initing the plugin, and page
content must be refreshed.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 2

[Ken Johanson]

Verified this is still not working in Deer Park..

Comment 4

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Bug 382957 has another testcase.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Can this possibly be true? Minimal testcase please!

Comment 6

[John Schoenick [:johns]]

bug 90268 probably fixed this if not before

Comment 7

[Ioana (away)]

Windows 2000 support has been dropped a while ago. Please only reopen this bug if you can reproduce it on Windows XP or older with current Firefox builds.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ioana, there appears to be nothing win2k-specific about this bug.  Please don't resolve bugs as wontfix based on their (bogus, automatically set by Bugzilla) OS field without actually trying to reproduce them.

Comment 9

[Ioana (away)]

Comment 0 specified clearly Win2k (see user agent) and I didn't see any other OSs specified in comments, it wasn't just the OS field.

Is there a specific OS you want this tested on?

Comment 10

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Ioana, since most bugs don't depend on particular Windows versions, it's not considered good practice to resolve a bug just based on a particular version unless it's clear that it only affects the particular version.

That said, the obvious thing to do with this bug is write a small testcase for it and see whether you can reproduce it. It's likely that bug 90268 fixed it, and we could mark it INCOMPLETE based on that; or use WORKSFORME if you can write a testcase and don't see an issue with resizing.

Comment 11

[Ioana (away)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0

There already is a test case for this bug in the duplicate, bug 382957. That test works fine for me. I also modified it to try style.width and that resized the plugin content well too.