554711 - Custom cursors limited to 64x64

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[The Idea Dude]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100324 Minefield/3.7a4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.3a4pre) Gecko/20100324 Minefield/3.7a4pre

A custom cursor larger than 64x64 is truncated to 64x64. The recommendation generally is all cursors across browsers is 32x32. However, with other browsers and Firefox 3.5 there is no limit to the size of the cursor. Windows due to high dpi recommend 32x32 and 64x64. 

BTW: Firefox 3.6 has a bug (resolved) that refused cursors larger than 32x32.

However from a custom cursor point of view, web designers should be given the ability to use larger ones especially on sites where the users may have accessibility problems.

The question is therefore, is the 64x64 the new limit in which case the MDC docs should be updated because it says there is no limit and recommended is 32x32.

Reproducible: Always




If it is a working as designed, then a statement regarding what developers should conform to in future releases of Firefox would be helpful.

Comment 1

[The Idea Dude]

Ignore my user agent which shows MacOS, this is a Firefox 3.7alpha on Windows issue.

Comment 2

[The Idea Dude]

I found a cursor bug in the 3.7 version for Mac that was fixed yesterday. (bug 554713). The developer mentioned the limit for cursors for all new versions of Firefox is 128x128.

http://www.ideasunplugged.com/test/firefoxtest.php

The 100x100 image is truncated under Windows.

Comment 3

[Youssef IMZOURH]

For Windows :
On the 3.7 alpha version, the cursors bigger than 32x32 pixels works (limitation is 128x128), but in 3.6.2, there is still a 32x32 pixels limitation.

Comment 4

[The Idea Dude]

See my previous comment. I ran 3.7 and the test case url and the 100x100 was clipped to 64x64.

This didn't happen in 3.7 MacOS

Thanks

Comment 5

[j.j.]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100506 Minefield/3.7a5pre

WORKSFORME, tested with link in comment 2