501281 - :hover CSS selector doesn't work without E prefix

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 197686

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[adel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090401 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5b4pre
Build Identifier: 

doing .class:hover has no effect, this CSS selector must have E prefix to work

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[adel]

Attachment: hover.html

working example

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is a known quirks mode behavior:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla%27s_Quirks_Mode

Is it not present in other browsers anymore?

Comment 3

[adel]

epiphany using gecko has the same problem, epiphany using webkit works as expected

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is a known quirks mode behavior:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla%27s_Quirks_Mode
> 
> Is it not present in other browsers anymore?

Opera 10b and WebKit/Safari4 do not have this Quirk (anymore). IE 8 mimics IE6 & 7 (and Gecko) in quirks mode.