257775 - popped-up window can't be resized by edges (although can be by lower right corner)

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Daniel B.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

A window opened by a link can't be resized by its edges, although it can be
resized using the lower right corner.

The link HTML is:

  <a href="/jsp_utils/PrintPage.jsp" 
    target="printFriendlyView"     
     onclick="openPopup('','printFriendlyView',710,650,'no',1,1,0,0,0,0); return
true;"
    >
    <img src="/im/ic_print.gif" width="14" height="12" 
         alt="Print-friendly Version" border="0" hspace="4" />
     Print-friendly Version
  </a>

(Yes, Sun really depends on the Referer: header field.  Ugh!)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://java.sun.com/j2se/naming_versioning_5_0.html (as 
   of 2004-09-02, at least).
2. Click on the "Print-friendly Version" link
3. (Note that a new window pops up.  With my current browser settings,
   the window has no Back/Forward/Reload/Stop/location bar).
4. Try to resize the window using the top, left, right, or bottom
   edge of the window.
5. The cursor doesn't change when moved over the edge and trying to drag 
   the edge doesn't do anything.
6. Try to resize the window using the lower-right corner.  (The three
   diagonal lines, at least on my window (Windows XP with XP's
   cartoonishness turned off).
7. The cursor changes over the corner and resizing works as expected.

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
Either both methods should have worked to resize the window, or both 
methods should have done nothing.

(If the window is still resizable, all normal resizing methods should work.
_If_ Mozilla is honoring any request to make the window non-resizable, both
resizing methods should probably fail.  

That's not to say that Mozilla _should_ listen to web-page authors who 
don't keep their damn hands off the user's browser, but I believe that's
already a user-configurable option.)

Comment 1

[Daniel B.]

Oh yeah:  Here's that page's definition of function openPopup:

function
openPopup(url,name,width,height,resizable,scrollbars,menubar,toolbar,location,directories,status)
{	
	popup = window.open(url, name, 'width=' + width + ',height=' + height +
',resizable=' + resizable + ',scrollbars=' + scrollbars
	+ ',menubar=' + menubar + ',toolbar=' + toolbar + ',location=' + location +
',directories=' + directories + ',status=' + status
	);
//popup.moveTo(((screen.availWidth-340)/2),((screen.availHeight-360)/2));
	popup.focus();
}

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The bug is that there is a way to resize the window (the page sets resizable=no).

The resizer probably needs to know about the flags the window was opened with....

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

Perhaps we can set sizemode="fixed" on popup windows, and then we can hide the
resizer with a bit of CSS. As a bonus, if we can also get the window to restyle
us when it's maximized we can hide the resizer then too :-)

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

part of what you see is mentioned in bug 340932 - in FireFox the print friendly window opens in a smaller window and is (correctly) not resizeable. In suite the window simply isn't opening with the correct size.  see bug 340932

notabug? (neil)

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Comment #2 was, of course, spot on the mark.

Comment 7

[lenochod]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008033101 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
It is work fine

SeaMonkey 1.1.9 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
Daniel, do this bug still appear in SeaMonkey 1.1.9?

Comment 8

[Daniel B.]

> Daniel, do this bug still appear in SeaMonkey 1.1.9?

Yes. 

(SeaMonkey 1.1.9

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9)

Comment 9

[lenochod]

This bug is in SeaMonkey 1.1.9 only.

It's works fine in SeaMonkey 2.0a1. 

Comment 10

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".