144745 - right clicking on a <link> element in non-HTML XML brings up the wrong context menu

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Paul Sowden]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051009

The context menu for a link is brought up when right clicking on the text within
a link element. This would be useful, but the items in the menu do not function.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an RSS feed
2. Right click on the text in one of the link elements

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To blake.  The context menu reacts to all <link> elements as links without
checking the namespace!  In this case that fails badly.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

As a note, this is an issue for any non-HTML XML document.

Comment 3

[brewthatistrue]

what is the expected behavior?

when you say "context menu for a link", do you mean for a hyperlink? (e.g. <a
href="http://www.mozilla.org">mozilla</a>)

at http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf i tried clicking (unselected) text between
the <link> and </link> tags. it brings up a standard non-hyperlink context menu.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> when you say "context menu for a link", do you mean for a hyperlink?

Yes.  That's what a <xhtml:link> is.

> at http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf i tried

It's pretty-printed, no?  So you're not clicking on a <link>.  You're clicking
on some text in between two more bits of text that say <link>.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

CTho, Callek, would you be interested in doing this?  Needs doing for both
Firefox and SeaMonkey....  Most likely, you want to check for "instanceof
HTMLElement" before starting to do the tagname checks.

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Or just skip the tagname checks and do (elem instanceof HTMLLinkElement) etc.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That would work too, yes.