44769 - Mouse pointer is a caret and no hand over a link {ib}

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Sebastian Späth]

This bug was created after bug 22037 '<object> in inline containing block does 
not display' was fixed. (this won't work with builds before 07/06)

Objects are displayed now, but if you have a look at the testcase (which 
contains the line: <A href="about.html"> <OBJECT> <H2>About</H2> </OBJECT> </A>
mousing over the <h2>About</h2> will result in the mous cursor beeing a caret 
instead of the pointing hand.

Is an object being a link supposed to show the whole object as a link? I 
couldn't see a case in the HTML4 specs that raw html is allowed a object, but it 
is e.g. allowed to contain an image. I wonder what mousepointer we would get in 
that case?

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

Warrants investigation. May be indicative of more serious problems.

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

FUTURE if we run out of time. Allegedly glitchy behavior in particular case;
could easily fix for post-RTM polish.

Comment 3

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

[nsbeta3-] and FUTURE.

Comment 4

[slipszi]

Attachment: Testcase

Comment 5

[gerardok]

massive update for QA contact.

Comment 6

[D. Lahat]

Attachment: Another Test Case - found in my.yahoo.com

Comment 7

[D. Lahat]

The new test case was found on my.yahoo.com on build 2000092508.
The source is
<a href=
http://rd.yahoo.com/M=77122.962838.2665104.823724/P=m2cvvil4110002/S=150000251:T1/A=432594/R=0/*http://vision.yahoo.com>
<center><small>Recap today's market activity on Yahoo! Finance Vision.
</small></center></a>

Comment 8

[Sebastian Späth]

The last testcase provided is not valid.
<a href= blabla">blabla</a> is just invalid html.

Nominating for mozilla1.0 as it this a seldom but important difference.

Comment 9

[Sebastian Späth]

Nominating for Mozilla 1.0, but forgot whether to set status or keyword to 
[mozilla1.0]. Mmmh, I guess status is the right one...

Comment 10

[Sebastian Späth]

<spam> I learned that Moz1.0 nomination work by setting the keyword and not in 
the status bar, sorry

Comment 11

[Loco]

Changing Status for my reference.  Was NSBETA2-.

Wasn't this fixed a long time ago?  

WORKSFORME in Win 98 01-18-21.  I also think this was a dupe 
somewhere, but same difference.

Comment 12

[Sebastian Späth]

The <H2>About</h2> text seems to invisible, but the pointer hand shows correctly 
now, yes.

Comment 13

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 14

[bsharma]

qa contact updated.

Comment 15

[bsharma]

Verified on:
build: 2001-04-16-06-Mtrunk
platform: WinNT

The mouse pointer is pointing hand on the link of the attached yahoo test case.

Comment 16

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component deprecated, changing component to Layout. See bug
88132 for details.