[WebKit-devel] Middle click to navigate issue [bug #211302]

[Urs Wolfer]

On Sunday 25 October 2009 05:58:43 Dawit A. wrote:
> The code in kwebview.cpp (line #126) is meant to allow people to navigate
>  to a url from the selection clipboard by clicking the middle mouse button.
>  Unfortunately it is also the cause for the bug report below:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211302
> 
> The bug happens because no check is made to determine where the middle
>  click occurred. However, adding such check is no easy feat as none of the
>  available function, including contentSize(), tell us when the click occurs
>  outside the content window! Any ideas on how to solve this issue ? Should
>  that code be disabled until the outstanding bug can be fixed ?
> 
> Anyhow, you can add the following debug statements in
> WebView::mouseReleaseEvent to see what I mean:
> 
> kDebug() << "Mouse position :" << event->pos();
> kDebug() << "Viewport size  :" << page()->viewportSize();
> kDebug() << "View geometry :" << page()->view()->geometry();
> kDebug() << "Frame geometry :" << page()->mainFrame()->geometry();

I'm not really sure how to fix this issue, but I for me use this function 
really often (in any browser). Do you think something in QtWebKit is missing? 
What could be done to fix it?

Bye
urs
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