56976 - a:hover definitions in style sheets no longer working

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 5693

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[steel_beak]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010
BuildID:    2000101014

In milestone 17 a:hover definitions in style sheets were handled properly and
the target text would change as defined. However as of milestone 18 the a:hover
definitions are not functioning. go to any web site which as a:hover definitions
in its style sheets and see for yourself.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
go to www.microsoft.com. the upper right-hand links have a:hover definitions
associated with them which change the color of the text. however mozilla does
not change the text color as the mouse hovers over it.

Actual Results:  text did not change color, it should have as defined in the
style sheet

Expected Results:  changed the color of the text.

              butts.

Comment 1

[James Lariviere]

the daily dup of bug #5693...

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that bug 5693 has a partial fix checked in as of 10/10 (right after M18
came out).  It does not do hierarchical hover, but it does enough to get by in
most cases.

Comment 3

[Antti Näyhä]

Yep, this seems to be a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5693 ***

Comment 4

[Loco]

VERIFIED.