1180670 - Synthethic click activation (ie. HTMLElement.click()) should not find the nearest activatable element

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

According to https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27430 the call to click() in the testcase should only operate on the given element, which is not activatable (lacking an href attribute). The authentic activation steps explicitly say to find the nearest activatable element, but synthetic activation should not.

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I will note that only IE follows the spec right now; Gecko, Blink, and Webkit disagree.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]] (holiday -> Aug30)]

The spec has mostly do-something-else-than-what-most-of-the-browser-engines-have-done-forever model
for default handling activation, so I'd be very careful when changing anything to follow the spec here.
I'm quite sure we'd get regression bugs if we changed the behavior.

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]] (holiday -> Aug30)]

The spec has changed around this topic several times and so has implementation, so I think we should just close this one. Please open a new bug if needed.