307057 - Mousemoving over menu items in a popup should not scroll the menu into view

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Currently, when a menu-item is half out of sight and you mouse over it, the
menu-items scrolls into view. 
This should not happen.
IE does not do that.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: patch

This fixes it for me.

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is there a more specific testcase? I dont' really understand this bug.

Comment 3

[Aaron Leventhal]

Comment on attachment 194865 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

A layout peer has to review this.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: image that hopefully explains it a bit more

This image shows a bookmark menu-item that is half out of sight.
When I would mouseover it, it scrolls into view, which is kind of irritating,
because I would only expect to scroll when hovering over the autorepeatbuttons.

Comment 5

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

I'm not convinced this is the right thing to do.

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

IE parity isn't a good reason to change our behaviour here. We're doing the
right thing for the user, which is to say, not allowing them to select a
half-obscured item.