99822 - javascript prevents access to shortcut target address of any job ad listed

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71705

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Marcel Kunath]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091303

Bare with me here as this is complicated. I surf on other to www.seek.com.au and
I want to look up full-time jobs for IT/Comm in Sydney. I chose the three
categories on the left and click on the "GO" icon. A new page builds with jobs
found for my categories. If I click a job ad the lower frame brings me to the ad
and displays it in the lower frame. It's all good.

The problem is:

If I want to copy the shortcut target address of a job ad into memory I can't do
it. I right click a job ad link and it automatically directs the frame to the ad
instead of offering the Windows menu to copy the link into memory.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf to www.seek.com.au
2. In left frame chose "full time", "sydney", "it/comm" and click "GO"
3. In the lower frame right click any job ad and it will not allow you to copy
the target link into memory. IT'S VERY ANNOYING when trying to apply for jobs
and trying to save the link of the ad itself for record keeping!!!! IE lets you
do this!!!!

Actual Results:  I could not copy the target job ad link into memory like I am
suppose to. The job ad link always remains hidden which sucks because I want the
links for record keeping for ads I might apply for.

Expected Results:  It should have acted like IE acts. With IE you get to right
click on a link without the Java redirect code being executed and it lets you
copy the shortcut target address into your memory. This does not happen in
Mozilla and THERE IS NO WORK AROUND.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

One possible workaround is to turn on notification for insecure form
submissions.  This should keep the page from submitting immediately, and
_should_ bring up the context menu.  Over to events. The problem here is that
the page is submitting onclick without checking _which_ button got clicked.  I
believe we should be firing onclick on right-clicks per the DOM spec, but that
seems to lead to abuses like this one...

Comment 2

[timeless]

why can't you use page info after you load the page to get the url?

Comment 3

[Niels Aufbau]

The page has links that look like this:

<a 
 href="jobsearch.asp?JobListAction=ViewOneAd&amp;AdID=1504084" 
 onClick="return ViewOneAd(1504084)">

This bug is a duplicate of bug 71705.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71705 ***

Comment 5

[Vladimir Ermakov]

site is not working, I'm verifying per coments.