Charles Miller wrote:
>
> 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.)
Mozilla is a seperate application from windows, I don't think people are
going to expect it to mimic the windows functions. There are plenty of
apps I use that act completetly different from standard windows
programs. If I right click in mozilla and a menu pops up on the down
click I'm going to realize that it's different than the standard windows
context menus. I'll know it's not meant for drag and drop, just like
the other non MS programs I have.
