Icon to edit bug description not displayed in Konqueror and older webkit

[Scott Kitterman]

It's impossible to edit a bug with Konqueror (which is the default browser for Kubuntu). See screenshot.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/phatch/+bug/434972

This affect older webkit and khtml browsers. These browsers honour the html specification to strip leading and trailing white-space, then normalised the space, then allocate space for visible content. There is not visible content, so no space is allocated and nothing is rendered. Lp's sprite mechanism relies on non-conformance to the HTML standard.

There is currently a JS/CSS hack to inject visible content into sprite elements in older webkit browsers, but this does not appear to work.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Picking up the workaround discussion from Bug 423924, this is another problem that would really benifit from a link to the non-ajax form.

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

Note that this only affects Konqueror, not webkit in general. I note that for whoever fixes it, not because of any importance change.

The change in importance is only a reflection of changing priorities for the next six months of work.

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

Konqueror does not use webkit by default, it uses KHTML which has a different codebase to webkit.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I have undupped this bug because the sprite file issue is resolved. The remaining issues are markup/CSS. This but was almost fixed, but a recent change to simplify the sprite markup has made the issue worse.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

I see a typo in the css file blocking this bug. This selector is does not match any Lp content:
    body.old-webkit .sprite a.expander {
It should be
    body.old-webkit .sprite,
    body.old-webkit a.expander {

[Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot)]

Fixed in stable r15355 <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/stable/revision/15355>.