id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
23042,Post edit page may become almost unusable and textarea resize not saved,kinderr@…,azaozz,"Follow-up testing to Ticket #22708 and patches [23016]
[23017]

I installed the new versions of:
/wp-admin/js/post.js (23016) and
/wp-includes/class-wp-editor.php (23017)

on my Wordpress 3.5 server. The problem still exists that the post editor window is forced to 5000 pixels tall because the wp_usermeta -> wp_user-settings -> ed_size value is being set to ed_size=310566666&editor=tinymce&mfold=f or other extremely large value with FireFox 17.0.1 and Chrome 23.0.1271.97 m. The ed_size bad cookie value triggers the patch code logic to set the post editor to 5000 lines. 

My Win7 screen resolution is 1920w x 1080h which means the editor is around 5 screens tall. This is almost as bad as the practically infinite bug value. Manually resizing the post editor height by dragging the lower right pane control will not survive a post update and the post editor resets to 5000 pixels high. This makes the editor tool bar practically inaccessible and a big drag on usability. See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-option-to-change-the-size-of-editor-is-missing-how-to-change-the-size

As a temporary workaround, I modified line 704 in post.js to 500 pixels:
{{{
if ( height > 50 && height < 500 && height != getUserSetting( 'ed_size' ) )
setUserSetting( 'ed_size', height );
}
}}}
and lines 74 & 75 in class-wp-editor.php to 500 pixels:
{{{
if ( $set['editor_height'] < 50 )
  $set['editor_height'] = 50;
elseif ( $set['editor_height'] > 500 )
  $set['editor_height'] = 500;
}}}
which is a comfortable post editor size (my personal preference) that is ""sticky"".

In summary, the 5000 pixel sanity logic for the post editor size doesn't fix the underlying ed_size blowup.",defect (bug),closed,normal,3.5.1,Editor,3.5,normal,fixed,has-patch,robertjkinder@… knut@… yoavf