34030 - Drop-Down list scalability problem.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32920

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Eager]

For a demonstration of what I'm talking about, go to the
US Post Office's International Rate Calculator site (URL above)
and try to figure out what the cost is to send a 20 pound
package to New Zealand. You'll have a considerable struggle trying
to select "New Zealand" in the drop down list box because:

1) Scrolling within the list box is slow.
2) Selecting in the listbox is slow.
3) There are update problems. Try selecting a country that appears in
the top of the drop down list. Now try dropping down the list again
and selecting New Zealand. Half of the time, the first country that
you selected BEFORE New Zealand appears in the widget, but submitting the
form sends New Zealand to the server.
4) There are various other redraw issues. Sometimes the dropdown list
doesn't get completely erased from the screen after the selection is made.

This was from my latest cvs pull (around 11 pm).

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

Thanks. Moving to rods/HTML Form Controls -- (FYI [e-mail]
.. the widgets used within HTML content are not implemented using
XBL).

(p.s., removed [DOGFOOD][ANNOYING] as [DOGFOOD] is not really used 
anymore, and [ANNOYING] isn't specific :-]. The perf keyword will 
probably do). 

Comment 2

[Jason Eager]

[ANNOYING] means when a bug or a lack of capability leads me (and most
other users) to say "GOD DAMN IT!!! FUCK THIS, I'M USING NETSCAPE 4.X
for this task!"

In this case, I couldn't really use mozilla to find the price of
shipping to New Zealand because I couldn't get the thing to select
"NEW ZEALAND".

These annoyance things are very important in getting people to use
the browser...it's the small things that count.

Comment 3

[rods (gone)]

We are aware of many, but not all of the problems with Comboboxes and of the 
scrollbar issue on Linux. [e-mail] is working on the scrollbar issue. 
From my understanding, at this time it is a GTK issue more than a mozilla.

I realize at times it is frustrating using mozilla, but this beta software, we 
are trying hard to clear up the remaining usability problems. Thanks for letting 
us know of the issue.

For far as selecting "New Zealand" you should have been able to give the combox 
focus and then repeatedly hit the letter "N" to get to New Zealand. If that 
doesn't work, then please augment bug #14771

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

mass-move to M16

Comment 5

[rods (gone)]

*** Bug 34077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[rods (gone)]

adding dependency

Comment 7

[rods (gone)]

Here is an additional url for testing from bug 34077:

http://www.unclaimeddomains.com/freesample.html

Comment 8

[rods (gone)]

moving bugs to M17

Comment 9

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

html32 handling of actual content on the web. nsbeta2 6/1-.

Comment 10

[rods (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32920 ***

Comment 11

[leger]

Marking Verified as a dup.