277892 - values of some attributes are not correspond with values of propeties of textbox

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1 (ax)

Properties of textbox 'value', 'type', 'disabled', 'size', 'maxLength' 'readonly'
do not modify corresponding attributes (see comments 5-10 of
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196148 bug).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Before fixing this bug it's needed to fix
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277899 bug.

Comment 2

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

like bug 277899, this is invalid. see explanation there.

Comment 3

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

to asqueella: What do you think about it?

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I'm not knowledgable enough to argue about it, but I would certainly like
toolkit code to be more consistent or at least to get a clear explanation of why
some properties update attributes and some don't. biesi, could you explain or
point us to a document explaining that?

If not, I think you should ask in a (npm.xul?) newsgroup. Please post here or
mail me if you get an answer on this issue.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

no attribute is supposed to be updated when you change the properties. for which
attribute is that the case for you?

Comment 6

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

if you meant the other way round, then yes, the properties are supposed to be
updated when the attributes change, AIUI. the best newsgroup for this is
probably npm.dom (or maybe npd.xul)

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, what's supposed to happen here is just a matter of what's specified in
XUL.  In HTML, for example, some properties modify attributes, and some do not...

ccing Neil in case we have this written up somewhere.

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Sorry, I'm not aware of any relevant documentation. I realize many properties
are mapped to attributes but that's probably just for reasons of convenience.

Comment 9

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

Ok. There is no complete xul specification (I mean
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xul.html). Should properties and attributes
be concerted? I see one reason to do it: it will be convenience.

Should this bug be reopened?

Comment 10

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I'll reopen it since I was resolving under a wrong assumption; but it may still
be invalid (someone else will need to decide that)

Comment 11

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Comment 12

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

still actual