619887 - openPopup(null, 'after_pointer') doesn't work as expected

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[ithinc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 

document.getElementById("contentAreaContextMenu").openPopup(null, 'after_pointer') opens the popup in the top-left corner of the window, but not vertically offset a few pixels from the mouse pointer. Is it a bug or intended behavior?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Neil Deakin]

after_pointer is not currently implemented with respect to the mouse pointer. It currently offsets 21 pixels vertically from the anchor.

Comment 2

[ithinc]

This has been documented in several places for a long while. Should the documents be corrected or this bug be fixed?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/menupopup#a-popup.position
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/Attribute/popup.position
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL/PopupGuide/Positioning#The_position_attribute
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial/Popup_Menus#Popup_Alignment

Comment 3

[Andrei]

It seems that "at_pointer" is not implemented as well. I've updated the docs linking to this bug.