329547 - mouse events not generated for embed tag inside an object tag

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

When a page uses EMBEDed objects nested inside of OBJECT tags ("indicative of the site providing support for IE via the OBJECT tag and Mozilla/Netscape via the EMBED tag"), it causes mouse-event capturing to fail for both DOM objects.  The referenced URL demostrates the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
It appears that when an EMBED tag is nested within an OBJECT tag, mouse events for either DOM object cannot be captured via addEventListener, even if both DOM layout objects are associated with addEventListeners.

Expected Results:  
Normally, embedded objects will generate onclick, onmouseover, and other mouse events if the appropriate addEventListener handler function is assigned to them.  But nesting these markup tags appears to cause issues.

This problem may be similar in nature to these reported issues (although this is not a duplicate since it focus is on capturing mouse events):

  Bug comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159370#c11
  See also: Bug #109082

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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