GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136288
JavaScript fails to resize window
Last modified: 2009-08-21 22:23:15 UTC
On the URL: http://www.skrumpen.dk/ When you click the lock icon in the upper-right corner, the new epiphany window just hangs. In Mozilla 1.6, and Firefox 0.8, the new window gets resized to the correct size and the window gets displayed.
This works in TestGtkEmbed, so it's a epiphany problem.
With current gtk api there is probably no way to make it work. TestGtkEmbed way of implementing it doesnt allow to make the user to make window smaller anymore and will not shrink the window when size is decreased. FWIW I heard rumors of next IE not allowing this.
Even though the window resizing can't be implemented, shouldn't it at least show the contents of the window, instead of nothing?
Bah I think I misunderstood the problem. I'll look at it.
Well it was actually the problem I said before, that site js is evil ;) The rendering problem is something with mozilla. Try to open the login.php directly in mozilla itself and you will see it does weird things.
I'm not competent enough to make a decision on whether this is a bug that should be fixed or not, or whether it should be forwarded to Mozilla. The only thing I can say, is that the site works in Mozilla, FireFox, Konqueror, Safari, Internet Explorer, Opera - but not in Epiphany.
The resize window problem _is_ an epiphany bug. The web site javascript is wrong (and it gives bad results on mozilla too, the window resizing is visible), but that's not very relevant The rendering problem is in mozilla, as you can easily see from the test I suggested, and we cant do anything about it (apart reporting a bug). If resizing would work it would hide the rendering problem (try to resize the window manually).
Btw, Mozilla offers the pref dom.disable_window_move_resize which i always have turned on along with dom.disable_window_status_change to prevent websites resizing/moving current windows and changing status bar text because it's irritating. So perhaps we shouldn't allow resizing anyway?
Same as galeon bug 67866 -> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117756 .
-> Mozilla interaction
Mass reassigning of Epiphany bugs to epiphany-maint@b.g.o
Could this be the same problem as what you can see in http://www.trouw.nl/digitalekrant/today.html ? Click one of the articles, and you see a popup window with an image of the article, but the image gets distorted and no scrollbars are drawn. In Firefox, the window resizes itself to the dimensions of the image.
Reproducing this in 1.9.4 with ff 1.5. Disregard comment #12.
*** Bug 331304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 425880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still happens on svn trunk. Updating version fields.
Pleeease fix this if possible. I'm a web developer, I would definitely prefer to use epiphany over firefox, but javascript window resizes are important for some applications..
Seeing this too since I updated to Ubuntu 8.04. Windows that used to be sized to conveniently show the information are now maximized (example: www.tv.nu; click one of the program links).
You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you please check again if the issue you reported here still happens in a recent version and update this report by adding a comment and adjusting the 'Version' field? Again thank you for reporting this and sorry that it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here. Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE after 6 weeks.
Looks like this is fixed in 2.27.90 with the WebKit backend. Can anyone confirm?
Unfortunately, I cannot check whether this bug still exists since I don't use Linux or Epiphany any more. Should be pretty simple for others to reproduce it though (the original site HTML hasn't changed).
Yep, this is fixed in 2.27.x (WebKitGTK+ doesn't have the problem).