346033 - no middle or right button simulation for single button mouse users.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[Matthew McGillis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060613 Camino/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060613 Camino/1.0.2

Web pages/Javascript can be driven based on middle or right mouse button clicks. However mac users with a single mouse button have no way to activate these other options when sites require them.

Would be nice to provide some way to simulate a right click or middle click. I believe the somewhat comman implementation is to map:
control-click = right click
alt-click = middle/other click

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Make sure you are using a computer with a single button mouse.

1.Got to url provided
2.Click on the text in the box and the event information will apear in the log
3.Try clicking using control, option, command, shift or any modifier you like 
Actual Results:  
the log never changes from a left mouse button click

Expected Results:  
It would be nice if apple users had some way of clicking to produce a middle or right click result.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Crtl-click not behaving like right-click is part of the issue in bug 312714.

Middle-click is "mapped" to Cmd in Camino but is broken in many places.

Comment 2

[Matthew McGillis]

Cmd - Click does not produce a different response in the example I provided vs a normal click. So from a javascript coding perspective a camino user has no way of trigering middle click events for sites that require it.

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Cmd - Click does not produce a different response in the example I provided vs
> a normal click. So from a javascript coding perspective a camino user has no
> way of trigering middle click events for sites that require it.

Nor does a user of any other Mac browser if that user has a single-button rodent. Site designers should not be requiring people to have three-button mice. It's bad UI, and it's bad for accessibility.

cl

Comment 4

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

INVALID.  There's nothing we can do about specific site designers requiring specific hardware.