249129 - javascript: links are not marked as visited

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Places, defect, P5)

Description

[Jerry Haltom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040624 Epiphany/1.2.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040624 Epiphany/1.2.6

When clicking a link that contains a JavaScript function, such as <a
href="javascript:doStuff()">, a user would expect the link to be hilighted as
visited. This is currently not the case.

IE demonstrates this behavior. It is actually becoming a nuisance to ours users,
who have just switched to Mozilla. Many of them rely on this for various web sites.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Confirmed in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2)
Gecko/20040629 Firefox/0.8.0+.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

javascript: URLs that are shown as a page, such as 
  javascript:"<b>Foo!</b>" 
get marked as visited, but javascript: URLs that just do stuff, such as 
  javascript:window.open("http://www.google.com/"); void 0
are not.  The second kind is more common.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

-> Global history

Comment 4

[Fritz Schober]

I have the same problem
This website is a perfect example:
http://www.maniac.de/forum/pxmboard.php?mode=board&brdid=1
If you click a link, it does not get the "marked" colors until the next manual
reload. That makes it very difficult to follow a thread in that forum.

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Comment 4 is a different bug.

The rest of this bug seem to be working-as-designed to me. No?

Comment 6

[Martijn (MozBrowser.nl)]

Comment #4 indeed is a slightly other bug.

> The rest of this bug seem to be working-as-designed to me. No?

I do not think so. On http://www.icstats.nl/beschrijving.asp click on demo (also
on the subsequent page). Then click on Bezoekers (= Visitors). When one clicks
on a link on that page a popup-window opens, the link does not change color
however (also not on reload). It is a javascript-link and one would expect to
see another color because one has already clicked on it. The different
color-value is in a style embedded within the same page (a:link and a:visited).
A user would not think of this 'as designed'. He/she clicked on something, the
website tells what should happen with a link on which was clicked and just
nothing happens. Just because the action was performed through some piece of
Javascript. Would the link have a different color if it was not Javascript, but
just a regular link opening a new window ?

Tested with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050808 Firefox/1.0+"