117429 - No right-click context menu when click on URLs in "element properties" dialogue

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement)

Description

[hobbit]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011226
BuildID:    2001122617

I'm used to right-clicking (button-3 anyway) on a UL or image 
and getting a context menu which offers me a choice including 
"Open in new window, open in new tab" and a bunch of other options.

I love the ability to open things in new tabs, especially now the
"load in background" open has arrived.

I saw that longdesc attribute support had arrived, put some
attempts at longdescs onto a page or two of mine, and started
trying it out.

To get to the longdesc, I right-click on the image, get the
context menu and select properties. This threw up the "element
properties" dialogue box. I then right-clicked on the URL for 
the description. I went straight to the page, leaving the page
with the images themselves.

On right-clicking the URL from the Element Properties dialogue
box, I was expecting to get a "Open in new window, open in new tab"
set of options in a menu.

Is the lack of the menu I expected a bug? If so, that's the bug.
Or would asking for that menu to occur be a feature request?
If so, I'd like to submit an RFE for that to occur at some
future stage if possible. 

I see the same thing happens on picking the "location" url from
the "Element properties" dialogue box, too. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page with an image with a longdesc attribute.
There is one in the 0.9.7 release notes, or you could try
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/index.html or
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/Trips/iceland-2.html 
if you promise not to laugh at my attempts to write these
things.

2. Right-click on an image and select properties.

3. Right-click on the "Description" URL.

Actual Results:  I leave the page I am on. I am taken to the new page with the
description.

Expected Results:  I expected to meet a context menu asking whether I wanted to 
open it in a new window, a new tab, or this one.

I realise that longdesc attribute support crept in earlier than planned
(or so I gather), and that this is therefore not of the highest urgency :)
If it doesn't fit in with current UI plans about what different mouse-clicking
should do where, just close the bug.

Comment 1

[Mauricio Collares [:collares]]

Marking as RFE, confirming ( right-clicking the link does nothing )... Some
developer can close this bug if it's invalid, but I think this is a good idea.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To UI design to decide what the correct behavior is here.

Comment 3

[hobbit]

Was there ever a decision on this?

Comment 4

[Marcus Campbell]

*** Bug 159886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[leonard]

Notes from duped Bug 159886 : If the link behavior is kept, then not only should
the right click work, but the middle/ctrl clicks should respect the user's
configured preferences as well.  Microsoft avoids this problem by simply making
the Address a non-clickable (but selectable) text string.

A related Element Properties bug is Bug 159888 - there is major funkiness wrt to
the target behavior of the Address 'link'  <-- in quotes because it currently
does not behave at all how a link should.

Comment 6

[timeless]

uid is being phased out.

Comment 7

[Andreas Kunz]

Links in the Element Properties window are not clickable (anymore), but plain
text. So at the moment it's quite natural that there is no context menu...

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter "spam" on "guifeatures-nobody-20080610".