99941 - Framesets with decimal (fractional) percentages are displayed wrong

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Sven Willner]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4+)
Gecko/20010914
BuildID:    2001091403

If a FRAMESET is defined with frames which have a decimal percentage value only
the integer part is used.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a frameset with a frame using a decimal percentage value
2. Load the frameset into Mozilla
3. Cut off the decimal part in the frameset definition
4. Reload the page and see nothing has changed

Comment 1

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk reassignin HTML FRAME/IFRAME bugs to Eric.

Comment 2

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

Bulk re-assigning all of Eric's HTMLFrame bugs to John.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is not too hard to fix; the question is whether it needs fixing...  Ian? 
What do you think?  The HTML spec is not very clear on whether non-integer
percentages are allowed....

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I'm going to go out on a limb and mark this wontfix, unless strong objects are
brought up....

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 249480 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Uri Bernstein]

Can marking this bug "WONTFIX" please be re-considered?

A scenario where this is actually useful:
I have a frameset with resizable frames. When the user clicks a link in one of
the frames, I want the entire frameset to be reloaded (because content in all
frames should be replaced), but I want the layout (i.e. the frame sizes) to be
preserved. The way I do it is by creating a cookie with the current frame sizes
in the onResize() event handler, and using these sizes to calculate a percentage
when creating the new frameset. If I'm limited to integer percentages, the frame
borders in the new frameset will usually appear slightly shifted relative to
where they were originally. 

And sorry for submitting the duplicate - I searched for "fractional", not "decimal".

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

does top.reload() not work?

Comment 8

[Uri Bernstein]

(In reply to comment #7)
> does top.reload() not work?

Errr, sorry, "reload" was probably the wrong word. What I meant to say is that I want to load *new* URLs 
into the frames - while preserving their sizes. The frame URLs are generated by the server when the 
framest document is requested.