7666 - Shift click and click and hold on links don't bring up menu

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 18726

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P1)

Description

[Ben Mesander]

Doing a shift-click or a click-and-hold on a link should bring up a popup menu
as in Navigator. Mozilla does not currently appear to have this functionality.

Comment 1

[leger]

janc, is this one already written up.  Dup?

Comment 2

[joki (gone)]

hyatt, I'm going to give this to you for now since you own context menus.  We
can still have our further discussions of embedding api stuff.

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

reassigning to don, infrastructure is in place

Comment 4

[don]

Bill, we need to get to the Mac-specific context menu stuff before beta ...

Comment 5

[Bill Law]

First, I need some clarification.

Shift-click on a link in Navigator does not bring up a menu (on Windows, at
least).  It is a shortcut for "Save link as..." on Windows.

My guess is that the 5.0 mouse event handling treats button down as "click" so
holding it down doesn't produce a context menu (on the mac, it never did/should
do this on other platforms, correct?).

So I think we need to:
1. Define precisely how we want this to work (on each platform).
2. Decide which problem (deviation from expected behavior defined in step 1)
*this* bug is for and assign that bug appropriately.
3. Open and assign new bugs for any other deviations from the behavior described
in step 1.

I don't think any of those bugs will ultimately be assigned to me or my xpapps
friends, but I'm willing to keep this one till an appropriate assignee can be
identified.

Comment 6

[Bill Law]

Still waiting for clarifications.

Comment 7

[Bill Law]

OK, since I don't really have any control over the event handling that
determines a context menu has been summoned, I'm going to attempt to reassign
this to those who do (back to the owner of the "event handling" component).

Comment 8

[Matthew Thomas, usability weenie]

On MacOS, the standard combination for bringing up the context menu is Ctrl-
click, not Shift-click. (See URL.) Shift-click-and-hold should work, but only
because the Shift is ignored and it's assumed to be the same as a normal
click-and-hold (the context menu appears after a delay of about 0.5 seconds).

Does Ctrl-click work? (I don't have a working current build.) If not, the Summary
should be changed.

Comment 9

[shoe_adam]

control-click does work.  It brings up a contex menu.

Comment 10

[rickg]

Moving to m13 because Joki seems to be distracted.

Comment 11

[joki (gone)]

Somebody dealing with context menus can have this one.  Saari?

Comment 12

[saari (gone)]

M15

Comment 13

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

Taking menu/popup bugs.

Comment 14

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18726 ***

Comment 15

[Jan Carpenter]

verified dup