65691 - off by one pixel when hovering over link

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Steve Morrison]

Go to any web site, approach a link with the mouse real slowing, one pixel at a 
time (try it from the left). You will notice that the status bar shows the link 
url one pixel before the cursor turns into a hand. If you click at this point, 
the browser follows the link, even though there is no hand cursor. This happens 
from the left, top, and right, but not the bottom. This happens when entering 
and exiting a link with the mouse.

Expected behavior: the feedback for the link boundary should be consistent. The 
hand cursor should display at the same time the link is clickable.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

over to Layout.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

->Event Handling.  Could this have something to do with event targetting?

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 59525 lists several similar problems where the cursor isn't correct when 
entering an element.

Comment 4

[joki (gone)]

This is probably true but I'd have to rate it low priority.

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer
working on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or
another known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work
in some way -- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 5

[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 6

[Madhur Bhatia]

QA contact updated

Comment 7

[Pham]

.

Comment 8

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

I am unable to duplicate this bug using this build:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005111116

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