58840 - [Mac only] Hide underlining of links when Shift held down

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Mozilla should temporarily remove underlining from links, when the Shift key is 
held down.

This would be useful for two reasons. The first is to indicate that clicking in a 
link when the Shift key is held down will start or extend a selection (bug 
50673).

The second is to make a long section of text which has been turned into a link 
more legible while the user is reading it.

Comment 1

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

Triage

Comment 2

[Stephan Niemz]

    It's a pity that this is supposed to be a Mac-only enhancement.
I definitely would like to see it on other platforms like Linux, too!

Comment 3

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Vishy, as browser manager, this enhancement request probably needs to be 
prioritized by you.

Comment 4

[timeless]

If anyone does this, they should make it a pref so that other platforms can 
have it even if it's only enabled by default on macos.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Then, go and argue for the reversal of bug 58283.

Comment 6

[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 7

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

please nominate for nsbeta1 if you think it is a beta stopper. thx, Vishy

Comment 8

[bsharma]

qa contact updated.

Comment 9

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

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

Comment 10

[Peter Trudelle]

This doesn't seem to fit our criteria for current release cycle, ->future

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning to a real person.

Comment 12

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

Is this still relevant for OS X? If not, it should be WONTFIX.

Comment 13

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 14

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug hasen't been touched for years and is clearly unowned. Moving back to default assignee/QA so that people, who are watching those can accurately triage this bug.

Also resetting Priority, Target Milestone, Status Whiteboard and Status.

Comment 15

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(In reply to Matthew Paul Thomas from comment #0)
> This would be useful for two reasons. The first is to indicate that clicking
> in a link when the Shift key is held down will start or extend a selection (bug 
> 50673).

Shift+click on a link nowadays means open it in a new window or tab.

> The second is to make a long section of text which has been turned into a
> link more legible while the user is reading it.

Granted, but also a bit confusing for users who are familiar with the
current Shift+click behavior.

I vote wontfix.