42275 - Context menu Back & Forward should always stay at the top

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 27338

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Eric Hodel]

When viewing framesets, the Back and Forward buttons are pushed down below an
"Open Frame in New Window Button" and I don't like this.

I frequently use the right click menu to navigate pages, and back and forward
are the two most common features I use, followed probably by reload.  I find the
context menu is much easier and faster to use than moving my mouse all the way
up to the back or forward button (yes I'm lazy, and I want to be as lazy as
possible.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Guess this belongs under history, but I'll take it.  I defer to german, the 
spec god, for whether or not I should make this change...

Comment 2

[Eric Hodel]

One more note, for links the behavior should be the same as it is now.  (In my
opinion)

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

Still need a decision here, pushing out until we get one.  The question is 
really what action will be the most common in this case -- back/forward or open 
in new window? Matt, ideas?

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Perfect behavior in this regard (IMO) is displayed by Navigator 4.x: the popup 
menu opens with the cursor right next to the item which an ordinary click would 
produce -- which is not necessarily the same as the top item. So when you click 
and hold a link for 0.51 seconds, you get the same result as if you clicked and 
held it for 0.49 seconds:
        ______________________________
       |  Back                        |
       |  Forward                     |
       |  Reload                      |
       |------------------------------|
       |  Open This Page in Composer  |
       |  Send Page ...               |
       |------------------------------|
       |  Page Source                 |
       |  Page Info                   |
       |------------------------------|
_link_.|::Open:This:Link::::::::::::::|
      |\  Copy This Link Location     |
       \  Add Bookmark for This Link  |
       |  New Window with This Link   |
       |  Save Link As ...            |
        """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""
That way Back and Forward are always at the top, but the most common item is 
right under the cursor.

This is behavior I think XPToolkit context menus should eventually emulate (even 
if Mozilla's context menus aren't quite so full). If that's possible, then I 
think that Back and Forward should always be at the top even now, so that when we 
do get such cool context menus, we won't have to change the order of all the 
items in all our context menus.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

I am confused by a couple things that you said:

>the popup menu opens with the cursor right next to the item which an ordinary 
>click would produce

This isn't the behavior I see in 4.75 on windows.

>the item which an ordinary click would produce

I don't really see this either. The example you gave was an Open this Link item 
when right clicking on a link, but this item doesn't exist in 4x context menus 
(on win32, anyways).

> So when you click and hold a link for 0.51 seconds, you get the same result as 
>if you clicked and held it for 0.49 seconds

What do you mean by this?

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I was referring to the behavior (and drawing 
the link context menu) of Communicator 4.7 on Mac OS -- where clicking and 
holding something for 0.5 seconds brings up its context menu (as an alternative 
to Ctrl+clicking).

Comment 7

[timeless]

Maybe we need some screen captures,
my link menu w2k nc4.75 looks like:
Open
Open
-
Back
Forward
Reload
Stop
-
View
View
-
Add
Create
Send
-
Save
-
Copy

For mailto, i get:
|-------------------
|-------------------
|               Back
|            Forward
|             Reload
|               Stop
|-------------------
|        View Source
|          View Info
|-------------------
|       Add Bookmark
|    Create Shortcut
|          Send Page
|    ...Save Link As
| Copy Link Location

Those | and -'s are actually w/in the menu [I think communicator is just a bit 
confused]

Personally I want Back/Forward always at top, put all of the specific stuff at 
the bottom; as a win32 user i can use arrow keys to walk up from the top.

Comment 8

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Sorry, I should have spotted this when I was first CCed ...


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27338 ***

Comment 9

[Scott Brodmerkle]

Verified dupe.