701690 - Tapped links are not highlighted

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:10.0a1)Gecko/20111111
Firefox/10.0a1 Fennec/10.0a1
Devices: Motorola Droid 2
OS: Android 2.3.3

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Fennec App
2. Browse to news.google.com
3. Tap on any link

Expected result:
The tapped link is highlighted.

Actual result:
The tapped link at step 3 is not highlighted.

Comment 1

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

Additionally, it would be very helpful to highlight the link when the user finger-downs on the link to provide visual feedback of what you've just tapped. This gives the user the opportunity to cancel the tap by panning away.

Comment 3

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

This has been fixed for a while now.

Comment 4

[cscott]

Was this fixed with a new CSS property?  tap-highlight-color doesn't seem to work in Fennec...

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

tap-highlight-color is an Apple developed webkit only extension with no submission to a standards body.

Comment 6

[cscott]

I understand you don't like tap-highlight-color, but it seems like Mozilla has implemented their own "gecko-only extension with no submission to a standards body".  At least, overriding :active doesn't seem to affect the orange highlight, and that's the only "standard" CSS property for this.

It's possible this is a bug (bug 788379), but if not it would be nice to document what CSS property mozilla actually used to implement this highlight.

Comment 7

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

We set the "active" state on things that are clicked. You can use that to do your own styling. This is the same method that the CSS working group has suggested web authors use. tap-highlight-color is an optimization for browsers that are really slow at drawing. We're not! (unless you decide to do something crazy hard to draw in :active)

Comment 8

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

by "clicked" i mean on touchstart

Comment 9

[Cristian Nicolae (:xti)]

The issue is fixed on the latest Nightly. Closing bug as verified WFM.

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Firefox 18.0a1 (2012-09-17)
Device: Galaxy Note
OS: Android 4.0.4

Comment 10

[cscott]

For future reference, my issue turned out to be bug 788379, which was fixed.