Bug 23759 – Right click events not fired when element over embed object.

• Component: Plug-ins
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[James Head]

There seems to be no way to detect a right-click at all on an an html element when it is sitting above an embed (eg flash) object.

This is inconsistent with WinFF,WinIE, MacosXFF.

I have attempted to product a 'simple as possible' test case here:
http://umaidevelopment.com/tmp/safari-embed-overlay/

Right click on the yellow area sitting over the white area, and you get an event.
Right click on the yellow area sitting over the blue area (flash) and you get nothing (either onmouseup or oncontextmenu or both should fire)..

Left clicks and middle clicks work fine.

Although this might appear trivial, for the web application I am working on where the bulk of the functionality is delivered through a plug-in, this is a critical/blocking issue.

Many thanks,

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

Thanks for the great test case!

[James Head]

Created attachment 27345 [details]
test case / example files

this zip contains the files from the test-case / example at:
http://umaidevelopment.com/tmp/safari-embed-overlay/

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

<rdar://problem/6559107>

[James Head]

Den Odell wrote this up too, and made another example/test-case

http://web.me.com/denodell/safari-plugin-bug/
and blog:
http://denodell.blogspot.com/2009/02/capturing-right-click-mouse-events-in.html

[Mark Rowe (bdash)]

In the case of the right click in the element that overlaps the plugin, the mouse down event seems to be dispatched directly to the plugin view.  For a left click, the mouse down event is sent to the WebHTMLView which sends it on to WebCore's EventHandler, which will route it to the plugin view via EventHandler::passMouseDownEventToWidget if the click doesn't intersect an element.  I suspect this is related to the slightly strange interaction between the handling of right clicks and the default context menu beahviour.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Mass closing plug-in bugs, as plug-in support has been removed from WebKit.

Please comment and/or reopen if this still affects WebKit in some way.