Closed Bug 946346 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Right click menu/context menu unavailable

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86_64
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sjekuopz, Unassigned)

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Details

On this page, https://secure.blood.co.uk/contactus/complaint.asp , if you have JS enabled and hit the send message button without something in a field the form wants then the site nags the user with the current awful web fashion: a fixed layer that blocks the page. But somehow this layer cannot be right clicked on, the context menu just does not appear. It is like there is something utterly wrong, it cannot be that Firefox contains DRM that can tell my browser to stop letting me at certain functionality?
It turns out this is actually the bog-standard JS alert. Even though it is a desktop application trying to alert me the alert looked nothing like desktop applications. The confusion came from Mozilla pursing an agenda of trying to make the browser into some kind of application delivery platform. The web can be used to delivery application output, but mostly "web-apps" are all about lock-in and continuing proprietary paradigms.
Yeah, alert() windows are a horrible way to do this. Especially now that HTML/CSS have support for form validation with pseudo-classes and attributes designed for this purpose. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/#pseudo-validity http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#client-side-form-validation The alert() window is working as intended though, so this bug is invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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