641664 - HTML5 forms requirement arrow panels don't handle zooming

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[steve faulkner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

when the zoom feature is sued to increase content size , the required message text that appears when a required field has not been filled in before submission does not increase in size.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-test.html
2. press the submit button below the text field labeled "type="text" required" 
3. error message displayed is not zoomed
Actual Results:  
error message displayed is not zoomed

Expected Results:  
error message displayed should zoom along with rest of content

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Not only does it not zoom, but it doesn't reposition as needed to point at the field if the popup is shown while zooming. This also applies to other validation arrow panels such as those for the type specific fields.

Not sure whether or not it doesn't change size by design, but not repositioning to point at the field when zooming is definitely a problem. Confirming and moving over to the HTML component.

Comment 2

[Dave Garrett]

For explicit STR:
1: http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/form-test.html
2: click "submit"; see popup arrow panel
3: use zoom keyboard shortcuts (ctrl + minus/plus key)
4: popup stays the same whilst the rest of the page zooms

You need to zoom using the keyboard shortcuts to see the position problem as clicking to use the menu or a button would hide the popup. The size problem is reproducible via any zoom, including navigating away from the page and back to a remembered zoom level.

Note also that if you zoom out enough you can even get the arrow from the panel to point down and away from the field instead of at it.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Isn't this because the validation message is part of the browser UI (which is not being zoomed), not part of the content?

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Why the requirement doorhanger should zoom? It is part of browser chrome, not
part of the web page.
(It sure should be moved to the right place when content is zoomed)

Comment 5

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

We actually have a patch for that, see bug 628238.
But unfortunately, this patch didn't make it for Firefox 4 :(

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That bug has nothing to do with comment 0.  It sounds like this bug as filed is just wontfix, no?

Comment 7

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Damn, I was too fast and looked at comment 1...
You are right, comment 0 is WONTFIX.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Alexander, why did you reopen this, exactly?

Comment 9

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Alexander, why did you reopen this, exactly?

I guess page refresh didn't update the bug status (from previous unconfirmed to late wontfix), I didn't wanted to reopen it, just mark it as html5a11y blocking to keep all things in one place. Sorry for that.