506710 - Control-click to simulate right click on Mac shouldn't send control+rightclick event

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Currently, if a Mac users uses control+click to simulate a right mouse button click, it appears that the generated event is for "control+rightclick". If we want to treat this as a right-click, the control key should be reported as not engaged, because sites may wish to treat control-rightclick differently than other right-clicks (for example, the editor on devmo uses control-rightclick to offer the default Firefox context menu instead of the editor's custom menu).

As it stands right now, devmo users with a single-button mouse (yes, a dwindling number of people) cannot access the devmo editor's context menu.

Basically, either we need to report control-click as either control+leftclick or as rightclick, but not as control-rightclick, depending on how we want to perceive this event.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This seems like something that should happen in the widget layer...