387013 - Cursor does not appear in Gmail rich text message box (since contentEditable)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: HTML Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Henry Bridge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070701 Camino/2.0a1pre (like Firefox/3.0a6pre)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070701 Camino/2.0a1pre (like Firefox/3.0a6pre)

On the 2.0 nightlies, the cursor does not appear at all in the rich formatting text box (it does appear in the Plain text compose view).  This makes it very hard to use gmail, and to test against bug 377104 (ghost cursors.)  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 2.0 Nightly
2. Open Gmail (or Docs and Spreadsheets)
3. Click New Mail
4. Switch to rich text formatting
5. Click inside the window and type text
Actual Results:  
No cursor appears in the box to let you know your insertion point.

Expected Results:  
Cursor should appear at insertion point.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

This is probably fall-out from bug 237964. 

Comment 2

[Derek Schrock]

Am I missing something here? I thought rich text mode was a Firefox only feature of GMail. Why is this set to Product set to Camino?

Comment 3

[Derek Schrock]

Sorry, ignore that comment. TroblueshootCamino was opening the wrong app. 

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

Does Firefox trunk have this problem?

Comment 5

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #4)

There have been various reports in the forums about similar problems in Minefield, although I don't see the problem (with Gmail) in the 2007070420 Minefield build (I do see the issue in Camino 2007070210 (2.0a1pre) - the latest available build).

Comment 6

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Can we get a regression range on this?  And if it turns out to have appeared when contentEditable landed, is it the same as bug 387534?

Comment 7

[philippe (part-time)]

Regressed between 2007062712 and 2007062722.

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2007-06-27+11%3A00%3A00&maxdate=2007-06-27+22%3A00%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot 

That's bug 237964. I suspect it is the same as bug 387534; but someone with more knowledge about rich-text editors should confirm that. (although 2 of the 3 testcases there crash my Minefield build.).

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

...which is in turn a dupe of bug 387380, for posterity.

Comment 9

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Bug 387380 is FIXED now; is this still an issue?

Comment 10

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #9)

Yes. 

Comment 11

[philippe (part-time)]

fwiw, there appears to be a similar bug report about XULRunner: bug 391429.

Comment 12

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Let's go ahead and confirm this, then, and twiddle all the flags and whatnot.  If it turns out this is also bug 391429, we can do duping then.

Comment 13

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Erm, I see that peterv added                                                                                 

res/contenteditable.css
res/designmode.css

to basebrowser-mac-macho when bug 237964  landed. I'm not sure that will fix this bug, but we'll need to package them, too.                                                    

Comment 14

[Henry Bridge]

I'm still experiencing this issue with Version 2007081901 (2.0a1pre).

Comment 15

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #13)

Good catch.
I added those 2 files to my res folder. Gmail's rich text editor now shows the cursor correctly.
I did a quick comparative test between Camino and Minefield (sending myself rtf messages) and see no other problem in Camino. Disclaimer: I never use the rich text mode, it is possible I missed something.

Comment 16

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Let's see if we can't get a project patch in for this quickly and then everyone can make sure that Rich Text Mode is working fine (and then cancel our blocking request).

Comment 17

[Stuart Morgan]

Attachment: adds the new files

This gives me a cursor in Google Docs again, so it's got my vote.

Comment 18

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Patch looks right to me ;)

Comment 19

[Stuart Morgan]

Landed

Comment 20

[Henry Bridge]

Now works for me (although I'm still getting some ghost cursors, I'll reopen that bug).  Thanks!