779237 - When copy/pasting or dragging an image the URL becomes absolute

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Rob Janssen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120721 Firefox/15.0 SeaMonkey/2.12
Build ID: 20120721105636

Steps to reproduce:

When opening a html page in the composer and moving an image on the page by dragging with the mouse for example, the URL of the image is changed from relative to absolute.



Actual results:

When dragging an image with a relative URL, the URL is changed to an absolute file: URL.
This is bad because the effect is not visible to the person editing the file, but is very visible to everyone else (broken image).


Expected results:

The URL should be untouched.

This problem occurred in the past and was fixed in bug 32768
It has re-occurred again in Seamonkey somewhere around version 2.8
It is still present in 2.12

Comment 1

[alanbailey]

version 2.13 - as far as I can see just re-saving a page I have edited changes ALL links (picture and text) even if you havent moved them!  I have a menu at the top of my pages which link to other pages.  Every time I update the page and save these links revert to absolute addresses - this is a b@@@@y annoying bug

Comment 2

[Rob Janssen]

I cannot confirm the above...  are you sure the links indeed are reachable relative to the page where they occur?
The linked items have to be in the same directory, or a subdirectory, or some directory reachable via ..  (e.g. ../images/filename.jpg)

I tested with 2.13.1 and it does not seem to change the links when saving a file where only text was edited.  But when touching an image, it immediately makes the link into a file: link.

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

Attachment: HTML Testcase with image

Confirming issue, testcase attached.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open attached file from some folder, observe in image properties that link to it is relative
2) Drag image to reallocation point
Expected result:
Image url stays relative
Actual result:
Image url became absolute

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20.0 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17a1
Build identifier: 20121121003007