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Bug 10250 - why must context menus not reflect changes in the DOM? Maybe some browsers want to always show the possible actions for an element. In order to do this they would have to regularly fire the contextmenu event to update it reflecting changes in the DOM.
Summary: why must context menus not reflect changes in the DOM? Maybe some browsers wa...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-07-28 19:35 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:55 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-07-28 19:35:26 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#context-menus

Comment:
why must context menus not reflect changes in the DOM? Maybe some browsers
want to always show the possible actions for an element. In order to do this
they would have to regularly fire the contextmenu event to update it
reflecting changes in the DOM.

Posted from: 93.223.20.79
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-08 22:39:43 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Are there browsers who want to make the context menu change while the user is interacting with it? If so, let me know and I will update the spec accordingly. If there are not, then this is of theoretical concern only.