[whatwg] Suggestion for HTML5 context menus

Eric Sh. shedokan1 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 10:14:14 PDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Mark Callow <callow_mark at hicorp.co.jp>wrote:

>  On 23/10/2011 08:35, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>
> We added support for this in firefox, so you can get the behavior you
> want there in the meantime (I forget what we called the attribute
> though).
>
>  Is there a way for the user to access the regular context menu? I could
> imagine it being extremely irritating and even frustrating if one can't
> access familiar and useful items like "Copy link location", "Bookmark this
> page" or "Select all" because the author of some element on the page has
> decided to redesign the context menu.
>
> Regards
>
>     -Mark
>

In firefox you can Shift+Right-Click to show the default context menu.
So you are given multiple options:
1. Disallow websites to change and hide the contextmenu at all
2. Show the default context menu with a Shift+Right-Click

So I don't see what is the problem? other UA's must face this in a way they
choose and any complaints about this is to them.


 On 23/10/2011 08:35, Jonas Sicking wrote:

We added support for this in firefox, so you can get the behavior you
want there in the meantime (I forget what we called the attribute
though).

 I don't see this in firefox, I tried the nodefault="true" as in the w3 bug
tracker but that doesn't do anything. Are you sure that it was really added
and if so why isn't it in this example:
https://bug617528.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=554309


Regards,
Eric



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