302274 - current page isn't highlighted in the Contents sidebar

Status: ASSIGNED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050726
Firefox/1.0+

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Deer Park Help from the Help menu.

Result: "Welcome to Deer Park Alpha 2 Help" appears in the main pane but isn't
selected in the sidebar.  This is disorienting and inconsistent with the
Preferences window.

Comment 1

[Caleb]

Well, if you go back/forward in the Help Viewer you will also notice that the
sidebar does not select the currently viewed article/help entry, that also sucks.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Same with hitting the Home button.

Comment 3

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

I'm bumping up the severity on this, because it's a rather glaring bug if you haven't gotten used to the current, broken behavior.  Furthermore, it will be a good bit easier to fix once bug 320628 is fixed, because with that fixed all page loading code paths will be in one of around four methods in help.js.

Comment 4

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Not going to block on this, but will happily accept patches up to beta2. You know. If they're safe. :)

Comment 5

[prasenjit]

also occurs in the following build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081204 SeaMonkey/1.1.14