265571 - XUL grids should allow horizontal scrolling

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[nrlz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

Problem:
All grids (i.e., "<grid></grid>") that I have used right now do not support
horizontal scrolling. All content must fit horizontally in the space and if not,
it trails with elipsis. If a particular column has a very long text (i.e., URLs
or descriptions in the Bookmark Manager or Page Info window), I can only resize
the column to the maximum width before it gets restricted by the window size.
The temporary remedy is to resize the window but that is not always possible or
sufficient.

Proposal:
On Microsoft Windows, the native grid components allow the columns to be sized
beyond the width of the window. Once beyond, a horizontal scrollbar appears.
(see attachment). This is better because I can resize the columns however wide I
want and then I can use the scrollbar to read the long text. I think
Mozilla/Firefox should do this.

P.S. This also applies to trees (<tree></tree>) too I think.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Columns should allow resizing beyond boundary of control and window. When
boundary is broken, horizontal scrollbar should be available.

Comment 1

[nrlz]

Attachment: screenshot comparison XUL vs. Win32

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There is already a bug covering <tree> scrolling...

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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