285583 - htmlarea wysiwyg editor broken - regression

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 284245

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050306
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050306

Editing text will fail with

Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.execCommand]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
(NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js :: anonymous :: line 1633" 
data: no]
Source File: http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js
Line: 1633

Works fine in 1.7.3 and Firefox 1.0

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to the htmlarea demo page
http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/examples/core.html
2. select some characters, apply "bold"


Actual Results:  
nothing happens, except the exception in Javascript Console

Expected Results:  
should apply changes and allow text input

When you try to input new text, you get "link found"/"link not found" texts in
the status bar

Comment 1

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

updated version

Comment 2

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

other exception in similar context

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMWindowInternal.focus]"  nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
http://www.dynarch.com/demos/htmlarea/htmlarea.js :: anonymous :: line 1006" 
data: no]

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

-> Composer

Olivier: Could you reproduce bug in Suite 1.8 beta 1 or specify regression
window (for example between 1.8 alpha 2 and 3)?

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284245 ***