53595 - Bugzilla helper has no Component choice

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Miscellaneous, task, P3)

Description

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

This seems to be a platform independent bug, cause server side.

Load the page specified in URL and go down to step 3. Next to "Component", you
see the drop down list with the highlighted menu: "Choose one..." If you want to
choose one, you see only one item and a long list of empty elements. The only
element that reads anything says: "A Wide one to widen the widget"

I think this is a major bug because this prevents people from using the helper
at all.

Comment 1

[Mitchell Baker]

Reassigning to Dawn.

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

Reassigning to gerv who owns this document, i think. (Reassign back to me if
not).

This is behaving slightly differently for me. With 4.x, i get a non-scrollable
dropdown which takes up the entire height of my screen and ends at "keyboard
navigation". 

With mozilla (sept 15 linux build) the dropdown is scrollable and i seem to
be getting the entire list (ends at Y2k), but I also get a number of blank
entries at the end.

Gerv: We really have a lot of components. Is a dropdown the best way to do this?
We definatly want this to be usable with 4.x.

Erich, what browser were you using? What version?

Comment 3

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

I'm seing the described problem with Moz M18 Build ID 2000092108 on Win 98. 
Viewing the same page with NN4.7 shows a scrollable list ending with W2K 
followed by about 5 empty lines.

Problem might not be on bugzilla's side but html form rendering? just 
wondering...

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

endico - I do own this document. I made a fix to stop having two copies of the 
components list; it now populates it at JS load time. However, there seems to be 
a bug in NS 4.x which stops it adding scrollbars. <sulk> I'll have to switch it 
back. However, I have no idea how to check out a previous version of an 
individual file from CVS - all the instructions only tell you how to get a whole 
module. Can you help?

Gerv

Comment 5

[Dawn Endico]

It turns out that the original problem Erich had was a bug in mozilla. Asa
saw this problem too but i forgot to reassign the bug. Is mozilla broken or
is there a problem with the new version of this page? Maybe the latter since
4.x has a problem with it too.

You can get bonsai to tell you how to back stuff out. for example:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?module=SeaMonkeyAll&branch=HEAD&cvsroot=/cvsroot&date=explicit&mindate=969677460&maxdate=969678240&who=pavlov%25netscape.com

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This should now be fixed, but I can't test it. Whoever verifies this bug, please 
check that the Component dropdown on the URL above is completely populated, and 
has a scroll bar if there's not room for all the components.

Gerv

Comment 7

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

OK, thanks for the nice job. It's now looking perfect in today's build as well
as in Netscape 4.7. All components appear in the list and no extra lines are visible
at the end.