Bug 41391

Summary:

Right click on an unloaded <embed> or <object> should display context menu

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Ridley Combs <rcombs>

Component:

WebCore Misc.

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

REOPENED

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ap, opendarwin

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
URL of test case	none
Screenshot of embed element	none

Ridley Combs

Reported 2010-06-29 21:36:38 PDT

If a user right-clicks on an <embed> or an <object> with no plugin loaded (i.e. no src= attribute or onBeforeLoad returning false), the event should be handled by WebCore, not passed to an unloaded, unspecified plugin. The WebKit context-menu should appear, instead of nothing showing up (as WebKit passes the event directly to the plugin view, which isn't loaded).

Attachments
URL of test case (37 bytes, text/plain) 2010-06-30 08:31 PDT, Ridley Combs	no flags	Details
Screenshot of embed element (282.63 KB, image/png) 2022-06-18 12:59 PDT, Jeff Johnson	no flags	Details
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Ridley Combs

Comment 1 2010-06-30 08:31:36 PDT

Created attachment 60122 [details] URL of test case The context menu appears when moused over the <body>, but not when over the non-loaded <embed>.

Jeff Johnson

Comment 2 2022-06-18 12:59:35 PDT

Created attachment 460332 [details] Screenshot of embed element

Jeff Johnson

Comment 3 2022-06-18 13:00:31 PDT

This bug still exists in Safari 15.5 on macOS 12.4 Monterey. Example: https://allthingsd.com/20130812/larry-ellison-says-we-already-know-what-apple-without-jobs-will-look-like/ <p><embed src="https://cnettv.cnet.com/av/video/cbsnews/atlantis2/cbsnews_player_embed.swf" scale="noscale" salign="lt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" background="#333333" width="425" height="279" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="si=254&&contentValue=50152829&shareUrl=http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50152831n"></p>

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 4 2022-07-01 11:36:03 PDT

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.

Jeff Johnson

Comment 5 2022-07-01 11:41:49 PDT

Alexey, I literally said, "This bug still exists in Safari 15.5 on macOS 12.4 Monterey." I am aware that plug-in support has been removed from WebKit. That's actually the problem here. There's now a blank space on the web page that's not responsive to control-click. You can't even "Inspect Element".

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 6 2022-07-01 12:07:07 PDT

Thank you for the follow up. I did scan titles of the bugs before closing, but didn't notice that this one needed more careful examination.

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