55025 - when saving a new html file: missing extension

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect, P3)

Description

[staublis]

start composer with a new file.
click on "saving as" and now enter a filename without extension,
example: "index" and click on save. composer saves now the file without an
extension, even if you choosed the "save as filetype" to be "html files"

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

confirmed with 110104 mozilla trunk build on NT.  Over to Editor (compositor is
not the same as Composer, see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser for component
descriptions)  Thanks for your hep testing Mozilla and reporting bugs!

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

sounds like a bug for Charley; cc Ryan in case he's been in this code recently
and might have an idea
nominating for mozilla 1.0 milestone

Comment 3

[Ryan Cassin]

Alright, just a quick comment here. While I was trying to reproduce, I realized 
that you must have windows set with "Hide extensions on known file types" off, 
otherwise the filepicker won't put "index.html" in the Save As textbox, it'll 
just insert "index" and always add the ".html". With it off, the filepicker 
puts "index.html" as the default filepicker text and the bug is reproducable. 
This was a quick brain dumb... hopefully I was clear and coherant :)

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

*** Bug 59569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Charles Manske]

I think Ryan is correct that the (IMHO really stupid) Windows behavior of hiding
file extensions contributes to the probability of this bug.
But it is possible to save to a file with no extension, so automatically appending
".html" when there is no existing user-supplied extension is a good idea.
This is easy to fix.

Comment 6

[Charles Manske]

We're not sure we really should do this. If we do, it should be done at the
OS-specific dialog level, so after appending ".html" automatically, duplicate
file detection can be handled correctly. This issue is related to the problem
of saving files in different formats, such as text (bug 51798).
Setting to "future" pending more discussion.

Comment 7

[Syd Logan]

spam composer change

Comment 8

[Gabriel Seah]

Isn't this a sorta-dupe of Bugs 101254 and 57113?

Comment 9

[Andrew Hagen]

Worksforme in 1.0 RC2 Windows 98. Reporter, could you please install 1.0 RC2 and
attempt to reproduce this problem? 

Comment 10

[basic]

tested on 1.4beta on w2k