137207 - events don't fire on XUL in XBL bound to HTML

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Events defined in attributes on XUL tags that are part of the content of an XBL
binding don't fire when bound to an element in an HTML file.  If bound to an
element in a XUL file, however, the events do fire as expected.

Comment 1

[David Hyatt]

I need more information.  Can you produce a testcase?

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Here's the testcase:

HTML file:

http://melez.com/xul-in-html/tc-bug-137207.html

XBL that is bound to it:

http://melez.com/xul-in-html/tc-bug-137207.xml

XUL file with the same binding:

http://melez.com/xul-in-html/tc-bug-137207.xul

When you select an item in the menu, an alert dialog should pop up.  This works
as expected in the XUL version but not in the HTML version.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

The testcase seems to work now for html, so I think this bug has been fixed somehow.
Using:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030505

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Agreed.  Resolving works-for-me.

Comment 5

[Luke Matkins]

I think this bug may have returned. 

On Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225
Firefox/1.0.1, Myk's testcase at http://melez.com/xul-in-html/tc-bug-137207.html
fails to pop up the expected alert window. 

The workaround given at http://www.melez.com/mozilla/xul-in-html/test3.html
works fine for me, however.

Comment 6

[James Ross]

This seems to be back, at least the testcase fails in trunk Firefox from 25th:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

XBL is now disabled in Firefox (Bug 1583314) and is in the process of being removed from Gecko (Bug 1566221), so closing bugs requesting changes to its implementation as wontfix.