Philip Chee wrote:
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!
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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.
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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
Thanks for the info. Although it's never been a problem with me the above explanation is appreciated
and problem solved for OP
Margaret
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