163928 - Particular linked image doesn't show context menu

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

- go to www.macinmind.com in MFCEmbed
- rightclick on any of the images on the leftside image nav bar

expected:

- link-image context menu should appear

actual:

- nothing

Here's what is going on:
- we get into the context menu code in the ContextMenuListener attached to the
DocShellTreeRoot. It notices the <A> tag and that it has an HREF so it correctly
sets the flag that it's a link. It then calls into the embedding app to show the
context menu.
- w/in the embedding app (MFCEmbed or PPEmbed), the code tries to find something
that will QI to nsIDOMHTMLAnchorElement. however, it can't, and walks all the
way to the top and then bails w/out showing the menu.
- PPEmbed will show the menu, but trying to open the link will go through
similar code and fail.

There's something about this particular image link that just won't cast to
nsIDOMHTMLAnchorElement and it's throwing off all our embedding apps.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

saari, this is a bug for what we talked about in the meeting.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33583 ***

Comment 3

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

I'm un-duping this bug because it describes a problem in embedding apps, not
mozilla.

> - w/in the embedding app (MFCEmbed or PPEmbed), the code tries to find something
that will QI to nsIDOMHTMLAnchorElement. however, it can't, and walks all the
way to the top and then bails w/out showing the menu.

For embedding apps, this is the crux of the issue. I'm working on the context
menu  handling for embedding apps and it fixes this issue by solving the above
problem.

Comment 4

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Taking since I have a fix.

Comment 5

[Conrad Carlen (not reading bugmail)]

Fixed by bugscape 8854.