281277 - Cant't resize browser window on pages with multiple windows, also, expand/collapse does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 109576

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[prasax]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111

1. I visited MSDN download page which gives a split windows on left ans right. I
am unable to move 'split' bar left or right to resize window on left limiting my
ability to see full content of the window on left - although it has scroll bars
taht I can use. But in IE, it has both - scroll bars as well as ability to shift
the split line. Another thing is that 'Expand/Collapse' for tree like structure
on the page do not work though they work for IE. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit MSDN download page to try to download any software that MSDN has
2. It will open a web page with split window with software to download on the
right with tree like structure 
3. Tye to shift split bar on the left window or try to collapse a node



Expected Results:  
Should be able to shift sp;lit window size and expand/collapse  tree structure

Comment 1

[Ian Graham]

THis MSDN download page requires a passport login ID, so I can't acces the link
you provided ... Can you provide a non-password protected page that shows this
same behavior?   I did try and poke about on the msdn.microsoft.com site, but
could not find one of the 'split' pages you describe. 

Although I can't test the page, I suspect that many of the problems are due to
the scripts: Microsoft often uses IE-specific (and non-standard) javscript /
jscript code that does not run on Mozilla-based products.  One way to test this
is to use Javascript console (go to the Tools menu, and select "JavaScript
Console"). This will list javascript errors -- which you should see lots of if
the page uses proprietary IE scripting.

Comment 2

[Gérard Talbot]

Prasax, I can not access that MSDN download page either because it requires a
passport login ID. If you can provide an non-password protected page where the
problem occurs in a recent Mozilla build, we could start investigating.

Can you try this page (link broken to avoid horizontal scrollbar):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/
reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp

which should render scrollbars and allow you to resize left and right panes.

Also, can you report back what value you have for
layout.frames.force_resizability
in about:config?

Comment 3

[Ian Graham]

Gérard  -- I tried the page you posted

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/
reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp

using a recent mozilla build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050206

And could happily move the splitter, with no problems at all. In my case,
layout.frames.force_resizability = false.

Prasax - could this have been just a problem grabbing the splitter -- on IE it
is rendered as an ~8px blue vertical bar (easy to grab), while gecko shows a 1px
black line (hard to grab)????

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109576 ***