Re: Hyperlinks and various browsers

In article <OwdJg.11030$r61.8841@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mark Rae" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The following browsers handle hyperlinks what I would consider to be
"normally" i.e. when the mouse hovers over the hyperlink (but does not
actually click it) it changes to a hand pointer and the mouseover event
fires, and when the cursor moves away from the hyperlink it changes back to
the previous pointer.

FireFox 1.5.0.6
Netscape 7.2
Mozilla 1.7.13

The following browsers do not handle hyperlinks normally, i.e. the cursor
doesn't change when it hovers over the hyperlink, and the mouseover event
does not fire:

Safari 2.0.4 (419.3)
Opera 9.01 (3489)
Camino 2006061318 (1.0.2)

Is there something special about these browsers which causes this behaviour,
or is it something more fundamental?

I just tried iCab, FireFox, and Safari. Recent or newest versions.

All 3 behaved the same for me on a G5 PPC running 10.4.7.

If the browser window is active, the cursor changes when I mouseover a hyperlink. If the window
is not active, the cursor doesn't change even tho no other window is in front of the browser
window.

A single click on the screen background will make the Finder active but leave the (now inactive)
browser window in front. A single click in an inactive browser window will make it active.

I have iCab set as my browser.

If this isn't it, then I suspect something with your system since multiple apps are misbehaving.

--
Fred Lotte
flotte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
.

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