218790 - Unable to follow a href in css popups

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 102578

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Jens Elkner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Unfortunately in Mozilla one is unable to follow a href with a left mouse click,
when it appears in a css popup (hovered).

A "pseudo-workaround" is, to use the middle
mouse button, however, it is probably very annoying ...



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. goto http://www.linofee.org/~elkner/mozilla/
2. point with the mouse cursor on the Mozilla menu entry on the left side
3. try to go to the dir1 by pointing on the dir1 link and clicking on the left
mouse button

Actual Results:  
The popup disapears, but mozilla does not load the page, to which the link
refers to.

Expected Results:  
load the referred page (for this example:
http://www.linofee.org/~elkner/mozilla/dir1/ )

Try a recent version of opera - it seems to do the right thing ...

I marked it as a blocker, since this bug really prevents webdesigners
from using CSS as a real alternative to javascripts/applets.

If this works correctly one day, I expect more and more users start
to think about MSIE, which seems to be falling behind ;-)

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It seems like click events are messing up the :hover state, or something like
that.  (I wonder if cleaning up the event dispatching code so we don't call
GetFrameForPoint for keypresses would fix this too.)

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

You may want to confirm this on something more recent than 1.3, as this WFM in
20030830 PC/WinXP.

Either that or it's a Linux specific issue.

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I see this on a current build.

Comment 4

[Jens Elkner]

Actually I can't test it on more recent versions, since all our systems
are equipped with libc-2.2.3, only ...

Comment 5

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

WFM, 2003-09-09-05 trunk Linux

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Jens, what windowmanager are you using?  Does the bug appear with other
windowmanagers?  I seem to recall that some windowmanagers deliver a mouseout
event to the app window when you click (and we have bugs on somehow trying to
deal with that filed....)

Comment 7

[Jens Elkner]

Currently all our machines use Slackware 8.0.0 --> GNOME 1.2 with
sawfish 0.38.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, sawfish is one of the windowmanagers that do this.  See bug 102578 comment 78.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102578 ***

Comment 9

[Jens Elkner]

Confirmed: With enlightment the behavior seems to be correct.
The pointer to 102578 is really interesting! Does this mean,
that it is fixed in 1.5 final ?

Comment 10

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No, since bug 102578 is not fixed yet.

Comment 11

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Verified by comment 9