76337 - Change mouse pointer when selecting a link to a new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 14027

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Tony Tovar]

Currently, when you point at a link, the Mozilla mouse pointer changes from a
generic pointer to a link pointer. There is not, however, any differentiation
between regular links and links which will open a new window.  

So, I would like to suggest that Mozilla use an alternate link pointer when you
point at a link which will open a new window.

(FYI - When you click SEARCH on the Mozilla bug-search page, it also opens a new
window, but I don't think this is a good example of my enhancement request since
form buttons don't cause the link pointer to appear.)

Comment 1

[Ben Ruppel]

Whoa, good idea!

Comment 2

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 3

[timeless]

yes, we should try to do this, however it won't work perfectly (javascript urls 
can do anything they like, and testdriving is not worth it), this will probably 
not work on all platforms.

There are three or four states:
target=_new, target=somesiblingframe, 
target=existingnamedframeThatisNotAsibling, target=inline

Ideally, we'd have different classes for each of these, and by default most of 
them would share cursors.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

The basic problem is to indicate whether or not a link will open in a new 
window, before the user clicks the link. This bug and bug 14027 suggest 
different implementations; I've resummarized bug 14027 to be
non-implementation-specific, and I'll mark this as a dup since these two bugs 
will either be mutually exclusive or will be resolved at the same time.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 14027 ***

Comment 5

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

/me trys to be a good qa contact