Touch events trigger on right click

[Fierelier]

Hello everybody!

I have been trying to use YouTube's mobile theme as my account was now forced onto the new, slower theme. Worked nicely, just needed to alter my user agent. However, I then noticed that the touch events fire when right clicking, so when I right click a link, I do get the context menu but I also navigate at the same time. I have tried to "fix" it myself by making an addon, but I was not able to because YouTube's JS is just over-engineered.

Might just report this as an annoyance, I suppose. I think no functionality would really be lost if this behavior was to be changed. Either don't trigger touch-events at all (you could be firing multiple functions, after all), or don't trigger touch-events on rightclick. Perhaps add an about:config value to change this behavior, in case something different is desired?

Also, just a few by-questions related to addon development (I hope this is okay): I make my addons with jpm, as described in Mozilla's documentation for legacy addons, but that obviously makes it a Firefox legacy addon, and gets run in compat mode. How do I actually make addons specifically targeted at Pale Moon? -- Also, is there also any documentation for additional Pale Moon API functionality that might be available? I find that it's pretty hard to find information on all this (I tried), I'm glad I even got as far as I did.. :v

Thanks for your consideration ^-^

[moonbat]

I make my addons with jpm, as described in Mozilla's documentation for legacy addons, but that obviously makes it a Firefox legacy addon, and gets run in compat mode. How do I actually make addons specifically targeted at Pale Moon?

Don't use JPM or the addon SDK, use XUL/overlay. The XUL Tutorial and the XUL School Tutorial should get you started. JPM is a horrible kludge that mangles together content and presentation by using Javascript for both unlike XUL, all just to make them restartless. JPM extensions don't play well with toolbars in Pale Moon (or pre 57 Firefox for that matter).
To make your extension target Pale Moon you'll have to add its ID - {8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4} as a target application in install.rdf. Note that if you do so, you must not target the Firefox ID as well unless your extension is intended to target Basilisk (which shares its ID with Firefox) and you have actually tested it on Basilisk.

[Fierelier]

Thank you for your response. I have had a look at the links you sent me, but I honestly think jpm's stupid-simple free-form approach is more attractive for me. Though thanks to your help, I was able to target Pale Moon by adding {8de7fcbb-c55c-4fbe-bfc5-fc555c87dbc4} to the engines list inside package.json

[moonbat]

jpm's stupid-simple free-form approach is more attractive for me.

The trouble is that it definitely is stupid, and it doesn't work well with Pale Moon. I've translated addons from JPM back to overlay, and the effort was worth it.
With XUL your UI code is clean and separate from the functionality, the way any sane software development ought to be.

[Fierelier]

I definitely don't disagree with that, but I don't really do big UI work with my addons, at least not yet. I will get to it some other time if I think it is necessary, but for now I'm okay with how things are.

[moonbat]

Even if you don't, overlay code is better organized, besides being easier for targeting all UXP applications. Since you're starting from scratch as I did, doesn't hurt to learn what is more stable and guaranteed to work well in the future.