264140 - click+hold+drag when starting over a Java applet will continue selection onto webpage

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Jeff Leigh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041010
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041010

If you click+hold+drag while over a Java applet, the selection box isn't
constrainted to the Java applet, but continues on across the whole page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load above Java test
2. Click+hold+drag while the cursor is over the applet
3. See how all the text on the page is selected as you move the mouse



Expected Results:  
Focus from MouseDown over the Java applet should be constrained to the applet
itself.

This started occuring very recently with nightlies of Mozilla, Firefox, and Camino.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> This started occuring very recently with nightlies of Mozilla, Firefox, and
> Camino.

Can you narrow down when exactly using the nightlies?

Comment 2

[Jeff Leigh]

Works with version 2004071408 (1.8a2). Doesn't work starting with 2004081708
(1.8a3). I don't know how to access nightly builds that are that old so I can't
tell exactly what day it broke on.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't know how to access nightly builds that are that old

http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/

Comment 4

[Jeff Leigh]

I can't find any nightlies from right after the 1.8a2 release, but the next
build I found, 2004072108, has the problem.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Probably fallout from bug 53966...

Comment 6

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Comment 7

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

The HTML <applet> element and related java functionality was removed from Gecko in Bug 1279218. Marking related bugs as invalid.