824482 - The context-menu library doesn't work on nested iframes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a menu item to show up when right-clicking the composition area in GMail, that is, when composing an email, and right-clicking in the blank area where the composition happens.

This is an iframe, with designMode = "on" (it has been made content editable).

The code of the addon lives at https://github.com/protz/gpgfox ; it's fairly small, so I believe you shouldn't have too much trouble testing it. If that's too big of a testcase, though, I'm pretty sure I can make an addon in a few dozen lines.

There's a debug line that shows up whenever you perform a right-click, because the worker's "context" event is fired. That event isn't fired when right-clicking in the composition area.

Thanks,

jonathan

Comment 1

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

I should mention that this also happens with Zimbra's composition area, which is also a nested iframe with designMode == "on".

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

This looks to be fixed in the current stabilization branch of the SDK, which contains a rewritten context-menu module from bug 788324. Please however note bug 826080 and bug 826082.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Thanks, I somehow thought that I was already running with the newer implementation. I'll give it a try!