614535 - Bidirectional issues in Firefox Input interface

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Input Graveyard :: Frontend, defect, P2)

Description

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

Attachment: Graphics with Arabic legend on the mainpage of firefox input

input.mozilla.com suffers from many issues regarding bi-directionality:

1- The legend of the statistics graphics on the main page has its letters reversed (i.e. 'praise' became 'esiarp'), while this issue doesn't exist for other rtl locales like Hebrew (see snapshots in the first two attachments).

2- Punctuations do not appear in their proper places for ltr content in rtl pages (css design issues). Parentheses occasionally appears reversed.

Comment 1

[Anas Husseini [:linostar]]

Attachment: Graphics with Hebrew legend on the mainpage of firefox input (not infected)

Comment 2

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

No, the bug with the legends exists for both Hebrew and Arabic - the captions should be תשבוחות and תלונות, not תוחובשת and תונולות.

Both will be fixed by bug 620446.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Legends are now fixed. The problem with parentheses still occurs. This is a classic use case for auto-direction (bug 548206).

Comment 4

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I told you you'd get to play with RTL at Mozilla, Matt :)

Comment 5

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Bump to 4.2

Comment 6

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

4.2 is frozen, moving things to 4.x and will reassign to more specific milestones soon.

Comment 7

[Nigel Babu [:nigelb]]

Fixed a few of the issues with LTR problems in RTL pages in this pull request https://github.com/mozilla/input.mozilla.org/pull/21

Comment 8

[[:Cww]]

This seems fixed now, file a new bug with specifics if you see issues going forward.