133109 - netscape.com - mouse icon is not a hand when over javascript links

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P4)

Description

[Theblueman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020323
BuildID:    20020323-21

When the mouse hovers over a javascript link the pointer icon should be a hand
to indicate it is a link.  In the link above the hand does not appear.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the link http://home.netscape.com/ex/shak/shopping/index.html 
2.On the left side hover over the javascript menus.
3.the pointer icon should be a hand over the links but it is not.

Actual Results:  The pointer icon is the one one used for text selection.

Expected Results:  When hovering over the links the mouse icon should be the
hand to indicate that it is an active link.

I noticed the same thing in windows as well.  Netscape 4 and IE display the
pointer correctly.

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

confirming using build 2002032203 on Win2k.

Comment 2

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->layout?

Comment 3

[Vadim Berezniker]

dupe of bug 88688?

Comment 4

[Vadim Berezniker]

or it might be a dupe of bug 129350
probably this one because i did not fine cursor: auto styles in any of the
stylesheets.

Comment 5

[Kevin McCluskey (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 129350 ***

Comment 6

[Christine Hoffman]

Changing QA contact

Comment 7

[Theblueman]

I noticed bug 129350 was marked as resolved but it didn't fix the original
problem with the URL http://home.netscape.com/ex/shak/shopping/index.html
The links still have the editor cursor instead of the hand.

Comment 8

[Vadim Berezniker]

This is not a bug as far as I see it.
If you look at the page in DOM Inspector of try to actually look through the
javascript code ( see Flyout function ), you will see that the the menu is
generated by creating a <div> for each item in the menu and placing onmouseover,
onmouseout, onclick handlers on the div.
They are *not* links but just regular elements written to *act* like links.

I think this bug should be resolved as INVALID since there's no bug after all,
but this is expected behaviour.

Comment 9

[Vadim Berezniker]

BTW. The reason it works in IE is because of the cursor: hand property which is
not part of CSS2 standard.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ui.html#propdef-cursor

Comment 10

[Vadim Berezniker]

So what can we do with this bug?

Can't Netscape modify their site to send 'cursor: pointer' when the ua is gecko?

Comment 11

[Vadim Berezniker]

-> evang.

(100% not a bug in mozilla)

Comment 12

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->evang500

Comment 13

[Olivier Cahagne]

Site was totally redesigned.