465232 - CSS outset/inset outlines should have same visual feedback in left-click and middle-click

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102479

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/20080528 Epiphany/2.22
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In web browsers using the gecko layout engine, including Iceweasel, when I left-click on an "a" link having CSS outlines around it with the
"outline-style:outset" style the browser visually changes the style to make it
appear pressed down (ie like "outline-style:inset"), but when I middle-click on
the same link (to open it in a new tab) no visual change occurs.

This lack of visual feedback has the disadvantage of making the user wonder whether they successfully middle-clicked the link or not.

I think that regarding CSS outset/inset outlines, gecko should provide the same visual feedback in both left-clicks and middle-clicks.

In web browsers using the webkit layout engine, both left-click and middle-click produce the same visual feedback, which I find to be more correct and more useful behaviour.  I would love to see the same behaviour in gecko.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load Iceweasel or other gecko consumer
2. Visit a page using "a" links dressed with CSS outlines with the setting "outline-style:outset", an example is my site http://nsk.karastathis.org/
3. Compare the visual feedback when left-clicking the link with the lack of any feedback when middle-clicking it.
Actual Results:  
Visual feedback when left-click, no visual feedback when middle-click

Expected Results:  
Visual feedback on both left-click and middle-click

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Your CSS contains:
a:focus  { outline-color:#888888; outline-width:3px; outline-style:outset;}
a:active { outline-color:#000000; outline-width:3px; outline-style:inset;}

This has nothing to do with outline and everything to do with :active.