292459 - selection isn't hightlighted anymore after hide / display (:hover pseudo-class)

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Romain BEZUT]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

The selection isn't hightlighted anymore after a hyding then a display of a
:hover pseudo-class.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go on the URL given above
2. Put your mouse on "Something", "Something Else" should appear below
3. Select "Something else" or a part of it
4. Put your mouse out, "Something else" sould disappear
5. Get over "Something" anew
6. Now you can see that the previously selection isn't highlighted anymore, but
"view selection source" is still in the context menu
Actual Results:  
The previously selection isn't highlighted anymore; but "view selection source"
is still in the context menu. So the problem seems only to affect the highlightment.

Expected Results:  
When the mouse get anew on the element, the selection should still be highlighted.

Comment 1

[Thomas K. (:tom)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050426
Firefox/1.0+

Reporters steps produce bug.  adding clean report to keywords, adding self to
cc, confirming.

This Page Is Valid -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Strict//EN!
CSS is also valid.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem is probably that the layout objects die off and new ones (which
don't know they're selected) are created...

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.