888413 - center, resizable and scroll options for window.showModalDialog don't work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[obrufau]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130627 Firefox/25.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130627031027

Steps to reproduce:

Typical `window.showModalDialog` statement, with options.


Actual results:

`center`, `resizable` and `scroll` options are ignored.

>> `center`
The dialog window is not centered when the value is `on`, `yes`, or `1`.
The dialog window is not hidden when the value is  `off`, `no`, or `0`.

>> `resizable`
The dialog window has not a fixed size when the value is `off`, `no`, or `0`.

>> `scroll`
The dialog window has not a fixed size when the value is `off`, `no`, or `0`.



Expected results:

`center`, `resizable` and `scroll` options should not be ignored.

>> `center`
The dialog window should be centered when the value is `on`, `yes`, or `1`.
The dialog window should be hidden when the value is `off`, `no`, or `0`.

>> `resizable`
The dialog window should have a fixed size when the value is `off`, `no`, or `0`.

>> `scroll`
The dialog window should have a fixed size when the value is `off`, `no`, or `0`.


Moreover, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.showModalDialog says that if `scroll` is `on`, `yes`, or `1`, the dialog window has scroll bars. I'm not sure if that means a behavior like `overflow:scroll`. If that's the case, it should be fixed too because the behavior is like `overflow:auto`.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What makes you think any of these options should do anything, other than the obviously-bogus MDN page?

Comment 2

[obrufau]

Only the MDN page. Why is it obviously-bogus?

Well, there is also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms536759%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It's obviously-bogus because it doesn't match what browsers actually do.

Comment 4

[obrufau]

Since window.showModalDialog is now deprecated, I guess WONTFIX

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

The showModalDialog API was disabled in Firefox 56 and removed later on. As a result, I believe this bug is no longer present in (more) recent versions of Firefox. Please reopen and needinfo me if you think this bug is still relevant.

Bugmail filter: showModalDialogClosure.