288488 - Arrow keys should scroll exactly one line regardless of font size.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[bugzillaspambox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

If I read a long text on a webpage, I usually read till the bottom of the screen
and then press once the down arrow to show 1 more line of the text. After I read
it I press the down arrow again, so that I always see one more line and the
statusbar covers the line below. This method helps a little to find the next
line more quickly and keeps me from acidently overjumping a line.

now ... by using this method there is a little problem. firefox does not exactly
jump down 1 line if I press the down arrow, more like 1.2 lines or 0.9 ...
depends on the size of the font. I know it is nearly trivial, but it would make
firefox just a little more comfortable if the page would jump up exact 1 line,
independent of the font size. so that we can read long textes with this little
help for finding the next line.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

What if there are multiple columns with different font sizes?

Comment 2

[bugzillaspambox]

you mean something like that: http://ontheserver.de/temp/temp.htm

well the lines are still 1 size, the size of the biggest font.

or do you mean like a table with 2 texts with different font sizes?

well then we need something smart. I didnt think about this case, but something
like a menu on the left with a big font size and a lot of text on the right with
a small font size is quite common on webpages i think...the browser could look
where the most text is or something

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Enhancement requests shouldn't expire.

Comment 6

[bugzillaspambox]

Bug isn't fixed, I can confirm the bug in firefox 1.5.0.2, which is the newest version of firefox so far.

I didn't check it in the actual mozilla browser but I don't believe that the mozilla browser has this bug fixed

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

perhaps a dupe of bug 152671?  

other examples of line/font height issues
bug 255367
bug 412904

unfortunately no time to research, but there is of course more http://tinyurl.com/5s7zm6

Comment 8

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.