Closed Bug 49231 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Reply: compose window is scrolled to the bottom of the quoted text

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P2)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: lchiang, Assigned: kinmoz)

References

Details

Reply: compose window is scrolled to the bottom of the quoted text

Win32 2000-08-16-10-m18 build

1.  HTML or plain text compose window
2.  Select a message
3.  Reply to it
4.  In the compose window that comes up, your original text is quoted.  Notice 
that the compose window is scrolled so that the bottom of the quoted text is 
shown.  The cursor is at the top (beginning) of the quoted text which is 
correct.

The compose window should open to where the cursor is located.
Keywords: nsbeta3
*** Bug 49237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
QA Contact: lchiang → laurel
This happens when the message you reply to causes the scroll bar to appear in 
the compose window.

Forward inline has the same problem.
+, P2 per mail triage
Keywords: mail2
Priority: P3 → P2
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3+]
Target Milestone: --- → M18
*** Bug 49771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Accepting
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
It's a editor problem. I pretty sure they already have a similary bug about
making the insertin point always visible. Reassign to beppe
Assignee: ducarroz → beppe
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
since reassigning, I'll remove the nsbeta3+ so beth can evaluate this bug.  This
is a very visible problem in mail compose window with replies or forward inline
(which is Netscape 6's default).
Keywords: mailtrack
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3+]
would it be sufficient to have the window open always to the top? the caret 
would default to top of course.
I'm not sure.  There will be some users who have their cursor be set to display
below quoted text.  
setting to nsbeta3- -- there is an easy workaround for this one
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
Target Milestone: M18 → Future
Beth, according to the PDT's criteria, this should rate a plus and P2 because it
is very high profile functionality.  Every single reply, reply-all, and forward
will exhibit this problem.  Please reconsider.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
I will see if Kin can try, but we are pretty close to the wire
Assignee: beppe → kin
setting to m19
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
Target Milestone: Future → M19
So the bug is that the cursor appears in the wrong place? The cursor should 
appear below the quoted text but above the signature, right?
No, the bug is that the quoted text is scrolled to the bottom, even though the
cursor is *above* the quoted text. This assumes you have your reply mode set to
reply-on-top. I agree this looks pretty bad.
Accepting bug. This should be pretty easy to fix.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Please make sure that the fix is to have the cursor come into view (ie. no
scrolling), not to move the cursor to the bottom of the quoted text since the
user has the pref set for replying above quoted text.
This should be an nsbeta3+, P2.  Please re-evaluate.
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
I checked in a fix for bug 33938 which also fixes this case.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: M19 → M18
OK using:
2000-09-29-09 mn6 commercial branch build linux rh6.0
2000-09-29-08 mn6 commercial branch build NT 4.0
2000-09-29-11 mn6 commercial branch build mac OS 9.0
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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