On 12/10/2010 23:33, Leonidas Jones wrote: > M <m...@oznet.com.au> wrote: > >> Me too! Me neither! <s> However, I did some testing and discovered >> that left clicking does not bring up the menu in Safari. You may have >> already known this, but I didn't <s> >> >> Cheeers, >> >> Margaret > > Son of a gun, you are correct. I've never noticed, since I don't have > the clicking problem. > > True also in Firefox, Camino, and Opera. SeaMonkey would appear to be > the only browser that does honor click and hold. I have no idea why.
The default for Mozilla products on Mac OSX is: pref("ui.click_hold_context_menus", false); See: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js#1679 SeaMonkey on Mac OSX overrides this: pref("ui.click_hold_context_menus", true); See: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-1.9.1/source/suite/browser/browser-prefs.js?mark=578-579#570 CVS archaeology points to: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/suite/browser/browser-prefs.js&rev=1.94&mark=449#449 1.41 <mozilla.m...@sent.com> 2006-07-29 01:47 Bug 301758 - disable click-and-hold contextual menus access by default, leaving it on in Seamonkey. r=mconnor. sr=neil. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301758 Says: Whiteboard: NO WHINING, READ COMMENT #34 TO TURN IT BACK ON! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The facts: Since Netscape 4, the NS and Mozilla have used click-and-hold as a shortcut into the context menus to allow for a quick mechanism for single-mouse users on the Macintosh platforms. The Apple HIG, however, states that click-and-hold should be an equivalent operation to click, except for in certain circumstances (such as Dock tiles). Instead, Apple's recommended route to context menus is ctrl+click. Safari, Camino, Opera and IE 5 for Mac all use the standard ctrl+click to get context menus, and do not respond to click-and-hold. The only click-and-hold action in these browsers is on the back/forward buttons, to get the drop-down history (see bug 102330). Firefox supports both ctrl+click *and* click-and-hold. The debate: Removing click-and-hold will bring Firefox in line with the Apple HIG, but at the cost of removing a feature that many established Mac users may be very familiar with. Some (full disclosure: myself included!) feel that this change, while initially jarring, would be worth it in order to ensure that we are complying with the platform look-and-feel, and point out that all other Mac apps require ctrl+click, such as iTunes (for editing an ID3 tag), and indeed, it may be more jarring for users to discover that click-and-hold does not work as a shortcut to the context-menu in other applications. Further, the current click-and-hold implimentation is somewhat buggy. Others feel that the established user base would be very upset about this feature being removed, noting that ctrl+click is still there, and this is just a further optimization for one-mouse-button users. Buggy implementations should be fixed, not removed. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So basically it was a compromise after a long flame war. Perhaps it's time to revisit this in 2010 long after OS8 and OS9 have gone the way of the Dodo. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey