[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 46733] REGRESSION (r67261): Middle-mouse-release opens links regardless of "press" location

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46733





--- Comment #8 from Peter Kasting <pkasting at google.com>  2010-09-28 10:30:01 PST ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Probably obvious to you, but you’ll also want to see if preventDefault or the other ways of preventing event handling on the mousedown or mouseup have any effect and whether the link is followed before or after the mouseup event handler is run.

Not obvious to me.  I was never a web developer, so I haven't written HTML and JS in general.  I do a lot of web searching and copy-and-pasting :)

(In reply to comment #7)
> It may turn out that the link following is driven by a completely internal process unrelated to DOM event handling. If so, we can add code to do that.

If you think about other events, generally an event fired by some action won't in turn cause the action if you fake it up and fire it.  For example, firing onfocus on an element doesn't actually cause the browser to give it focus.  Or at least, that's what some reference on DOM events I'm reading is telling me...

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