271066 - No scrollbars in javascript window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Max Alekseyev]

Mozilla linux build 2004111905

Open testcase and click on "click on me" link. A new window pop-ups but there
are no scrollbars.

Comment 1

[Max Alekseyev]

Attachment: foo

Comment 2

[Max Alekseyev]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase with "scrollbars=yes" in window.open argument

It works when "scrollbars=yes" is specified in the window.open argument.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: Testcase to show what window.scrollbars.visible is showing

When the scrollbars argument in window.open is omitted, it seems that
windows.scrollbars.visible=false.
When scrollbars=yes, windows.scrollbars.visible becomes true.

So it seems like Mozilla has the scrollbars by default off, by purpose.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The window features that are not explicitly listed as enabled in the window
feature list are turned off (if there are features listed in the list at all; if
none are listed, the defaults are used).

I believe that's been the behavior all along and is the correct one...

Comment 6

[Max Alekseyev]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The window features that are not explicitly listed as enabled in the window
> feature list are turned off (if there are features listed in the list at all; if
> none are listed, the defaults are used).
> 
> I believe that's been the behavior all along and is the correct one...

I think that there should be default for each separate feature, and if this
particular feature is not listed, its default must be used.
In particular, for scrollbar= the default should be "yes".

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That would break compatibility with how this has worked all along and how it
works in other browsers.  This behavior is hardly a secret, and is clearly
documented.  See for example:

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/win_open.html (the first
hit on "window.open features" on google).

 ("if you do specify any feature parameters, titlebar and hotkeys still default
   to yes but all others are no.")

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/open_0.asp
(the second hit on the same search string).

 ("When the sFeatures  parameter is specified, the features that are not defined
   in the parameter are disabled.")

Marking invalid, since this is in fact behaving as it should.

Comment 8

[Max Alekseyev]

Default for scrollbars= must be "yes".
See http://www.webreference.com/js/column7/attributes.html

"scrollbars=[yes|no|1|0]
    Specifies whether to display horizontal and vertical scroll bars, when the
content exceeds the dimensions of the window. This feature is yes by default."

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The defaults are used if no features are specified.  If any features are
specified, all other ones are disabled.  From the very page you quote:

  "For compatibility reasons, you should always specify each feature explicity."

The reason is that IE, Netscape, and Mozilla all behave the same, documented,
way -- features not specified are disabled if other features are specified.