45828 - Dragging an image, that's not a link that is in a frameset onto a browser window causes weirdness

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44254

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P3)

Description

[Andrew Thompson]

This one took *ages* to isolate:

1. Goto http://www.chproducts.com/index.html
2. Drag either of the *round* awards images near the bottom of the main
frame back onto the same frame.

n.b. the left hand silver image is called award.gif

Mozilla attemtps to load http://www.gif.com/award.gif which fails,
because that's nonsense :-)

Things to note:
i) these images are not links (that situation behaves much better)
ii) The image *must* be in a frameset. If there's no frameset nothing happens
when the image is dropped.

I've also seen the case where an image named mandelbot.gif tries to load 
www.mandelbrot.gif. Obviously components of the dragged image's URL are being 
interpretted as a URL for mozilla to load. If one examines the award.gif
from the example above one sees its in a directory called GIF. I figure this
is why Moz is trying to go to gif.com in the example case.

Actually the Moz drag and drop spec doesn't say what should happen when an 
unlinked image is dragged from one browser window to another (or back onto the
same window).

I guess the options are:
i) nothing
ii) should work like right click and select "View Image". i.e. loads the image
into the window.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

not a toolkit bug, this is xpapps.

Comment 2

[Andrew Thompson]

Is this a duplicate of:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44254

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

This is probably a duplicate of another bug.  To me, this sounds like the bug 
where the image has a relative url which we try to load (and fail).  The fix for 
this bug is to always make sure that all links/images/etc. have absolute urls 
when they are dragged.

(note:  I haven't actually tried this particular bug but it does sound like the 
relative url problem)

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Looks like a dup of 44254 to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44254 ***

Comment 5

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.