301796 - Show resizers around arbitrary element

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, enhancement)

Description

[Blagovest Dachev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Risking to be accused of filing advocacy bugs, I think that Mozilla should be
allowed to become a ‘universal canvas for UI design’ as someone else put it in a
comment to the now infamous bug <a href=”
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97284”> 97284 </a>. I am not going
to go over the reasons, benefits and importance of such a switch of paradigms
(or rather enhancement), since I’m sure that those are well understood.
Showing handles around any element and selective element editing are probably
the two essentials that are currently needed the most for Mozilla to be a
generic editor.
In light of the above, my particular suggestion is to enable the editor to show
resize handles around arbitrary elements. This can be done with an attribute
(-moz-resizable=”true”) or CSS. In the former scenario a method
getElementOrParentByAttribute() can be introduced in nsIHTMLEditor. It can then
be used in CheckSelectionStateForAnonymousButtons() to filter candidates for
focusElement, which is the one to be shown handles around.
This particular feature can be beneficial to Composer as well. It will allow
form element resizing.
I am willing to help and make a patch for review. I’ve been testing for already
a week.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Blagovest, are you still willing to code a patch 2½ years later? If you are, ACCEPT this bug and go ahead. If you aren't, reassign this bug to [e-mail], or if you can't do that, say so and I will.

You /are/ using SeaMonkey, aren't you? (The UA in comment #0 says Firefox.)

Comment 2

[Blagovest Dachev]

I am currently too busy to implement the change.

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Is this still actual?

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Resolved per whiteboard