Jared Breland wrote:
> Warren Bell wrote:
>
>
>>Christopher Jahn wrote:
>>
>>>And it came to pass that Warren Bell wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't know if this is a bug or somone actually meant it to
>>>>be this way but why would you have the right click context
>>>>menu execute on the release of a right click? One of the
>>>>things I like about Netscape 4.x is you can right click and
>>>>hold, scroll down to your selection and let go and the
>>>>function gets executed. Now you have to right click, let
>>>>go, scroll and left click to do somthing. It reminds me of
>>>>IE.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This is the way it has always worked for me.
>>>
>>I can't see how this would be better in any way. Seems like it goes
>>against useability..
>>
>
> I agree with you. I posted a question about this about a month ago.
> This bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49844) was
> resolved as fixed, despite the large number of people that find it's
> behavior extremely undesirable. Go to the bug page and you can read the
> comments. Also, add another vote for re-opening and fixing the bug.
The problem with reading bug reports is that they're in no way
indicative of anything but the opinions of two groups - those people who
are working on the affected module, and those people who made the effort
to look up the bug.
Standard Windows behaviour for right-click-and-drag is to pick up item
under the mouse pointer, and then on mouse-release present an extended
menu of drag-and-drop options. Standard behaviour under Mac and Unix is
to have a context-menu appear on mouse-down, so that's how it works on
Mac and Unix.
Mozilla doesn't support Windows right-click drag and drop right now, but
it could in the future. It would, for example, be very useful if you
could right-drag a link from Mozilla to the desktop or explorer and then
choose between "Copy shortcut", and "Download..." IE just gives me a
stupid "Add to Active Desktop" option that's no use to anyone. Anybody
know if there's an RFE for this?
The big mistake would be to say that because Mozilla doesn't implement
right-click drag and drop, you can replace the dragging behaviour with
something completely different. This causes serious useability problems
because it hides the fact that the original behaviour is not
implemented. If I right-drag something on a Windows app and nothing
happens, I think "Okay, I can't do that." If I right-drag and a menu
appears, I start wasting time trying to find a way to stop the menu
appearing so I can do a real right-drag.
If you want one-click back and forward navigation, that's why there are
back and forward buttons. Alternatively, you could always code a
gesture-navigation system similar to Opera's and either contribute that
to Mozilla, or distribute it as a patch or add-on.
Charles Miller
(P.S. Since 0.9.1 has been released, I decided to give the Mail/News
component on the lastest nightly a try. (The last time I tried was
0.8.1, and was rather vocally unimpressed in n.p.m.general) So far it's
been very smooth, all the niggling problems I had with previous versions
seem to be fixed, and its back to being only as annoying as every other
GUI newsreader. I am impressed.)
