228269 - Mousemove events do not work when there is no static content

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P5)

Description

[Erik Arvidsson]

When a user holds down the mouse button the mouse move events should fire
wherever the mouse pointer is, even if the mouse pointer moves outside the
viewport for the document. Since we do not have a way to set external capturing
it is crucial that this works for creating user interfaces in HTML/XML/XUL.

However, if the element does not contain any static (position static) content or
text it does not work. When the mouse pointer is outside the viewport the mouse
move events do not fire any longer.

This is related to bug #178519 which was fixed a while ago but it isn't until
now that I realized why the fix did not allow the toolbars to work as supposed.

Comment 1

[Erik Arvidsson]

Attachment: Shows that mousemove does not work when there is no content

Drag the element between "Before" and "After". Note that the status bar is not
updated when outside the browser window.

For the same test case with text inside the element see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=105227&action=view

Comment 2

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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