Closed
Bug 17751
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Context menus for links in browser
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, enhancement, P3)
SeaMonkey
UI Design
Tracking
(Not tracked)
Future
People
(Reporter: CodeMachine, Assigned: law)
Details
It would be nice in the browser (and maybe mail-news), to be able to select text, and right click it, and have the following options. Open This Page Open This Page In Another Window Go To This Newsgroup Mail To This Person for cases where no hyperlink is present.
I can understand wanting this in mail-news, but why in the browser?
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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There is already some hyperlinkifying in mail-news, perhaps it should be extended to the browser (for text files). There's probably not a lot of scope in HTML, but it could still happen.
Updated•25 years ago
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Assignee: leger → law
Component: Browser-General → XPApps
Summary: Links from page text. → Context menus for links in browser
Comment 3•25 years ago
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law.
This might be a nice feature but is definitely "out plan." There's a fair number of issues that would have to be resolved, such as: o How to map the mouse click location to specific text o How to interpret the text (I presume you want user@somehost.com to be recognized, not just mailto:user@somehost.com). A simpler plan might be to do something like accepting clicks on *selected* text and feeding that text automatically to something like search.netscape.com.
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Comment 5•25 years ago
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While I don't know what search.netscape.com has to do with it, this was always referring to selected text only, I don't think there's any other answer to the first point. I guess it would be desirable to only have this come up on text that fits the bill - this should err on the positive side I think.
re: search.netscape.com If we simply passed the selected text to the appropriate cgi script at that location, we perhaps could avoid the hassle of parsing the text to determine where to go to. This has one nice benefit: if you see some phrase mentioned on a page, e.g. "Mozilla 5.0 beta release date" you could say: Hey! I want to know more about that, select it, right click, and say "Search the 'net..." (or whatever) and get to related information. That should work equally well if the selected text is "mozilla.org". It probably doesn't handle mailto: very well, though (but if it's a person's name, like "Bill Clinton" it might get you to a web page that has a mailto:bigbill@whitehouse.gov link (which code that looks for name@host couldn't do). Just brainstorming.
Updated•25 years ago
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QA Contact: paulmac → sairuh
Updated•24 years ago
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Target Milestone: M16 → Future
Comment 8•24 years ago
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perhaps i'm misunderstanding this bug --but, afaik, there are context-menu items specific for links. ie, bring mouse over link, right mouseclick and see the following context menu items: Open Link in New Window Edit Link in Composer ...[other items regularly in menu]... Save Link As... Copy Link Location if this is the case, then i'll mark this bug wfm... otherwise pls clarify/change summary. thx much!
Comment 9•24 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15176 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 10•24 years ago
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See bug 39042 for hyperlinkifying urls in text files.
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Comment 11•23 years ago
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verified
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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