Re: ACTION-119: dblclick analysis

On Saturday 2006-05-06 16:57 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> All browsers seem to agree that dblclick.detail should match  
> click.detail for the corresponsing click event, although Opera does  
> not appear to be following Mac platform conventions for click count,  
> and Firefox does not appear to be following the proposed detail % 2  
> == 0 rule on the Mac.

Gecko just uses the click count that it gets from the toolkit.  I think
this is a good thing, since it means Web apps will follow the
environment's convention for multiple clicks.  When the user clicks in
rapid succession, my tests [1] showed that this count progresses in the
following ways:

Windows: 1 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 ...
GTK2:    1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 ...
Mac:     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ...

When the click count is 2, we fire a dblclick event in addition to a
click event.

-David

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298271#c8 from the
    testcases on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227328
    (and perhaps somewhere else first, but I can't find it)

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
           Technical Lead, Layout & CSS, Mozilla Corporation