496871 - [Extension] Long collection name/description with no spaces causes horizontal scrolling

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Collector Extension, defect, P3)

Description

[Brian King [:kinger]]

This is an edge-case, but I am logging to keep track so that this is looked into at some point.

When a Subscription has a very long description, it causes horizontal scrolling in the Subscriptions pane in the Collector add-on.

Illustrated here:
http://screencast.com/t/A2ZrupVhWMo

The expected behaviour I think should be for it to crop, showing an ellipsis.

Comment 1

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Krupa, can you try this on this version? I think it was fixed since the latest version. (We should really set up an updateURL for this :) )

http://people.mozilla.com/~jscott/bandwagon/bandwagon-20090608.xpi

Comment 2

[Brian King [:kinger]]

This bug is not yet fixed. Only long names/descriptions with spaces are wrapping correctly.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

On the website, we consider such long names without spaces (a mild form of) abuse and just apply overflow:hidden; to them. If you can do something similar in the extension, go ahead.

Comment 4

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Oh. Then don't worry too much about this one. As Fred said, anything that long without spaces is abuse.

Comment 5

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Closing this. Anything that long without spaces deserves what it gets.

Comment 6

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Closing this. Anything that long without spaces deserves what it gets.

Perhaps, but this is causing serious layout issues that I still think warrants a fix in the extension. Screenshot to follow...

Comment 7

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Attachment: Obscured Buttons

The long description is pushing out the container and the items in a collection stretch to fill the space. What it means is that the Publish and Add To buttons are not visible.

The solution is to crop the description to the width of the window, but without spaces there is no in-built XUL way to do this.

What we could so, if there are no spaces, is to just break the word up at a particular character count, say 80.

Comment 8

[Brian King [:kinger]]

2.1 is being released soon and it will be the final version of the Collector in its current form (A simple add-on just to load the Collections AMO page might replace it). This bug won't make it in. So marking this as WONTFIX.