To implement specific custom cursors triggered when mouse hovers over 3 types of anchors: - <a target="_blank" ...> - <a href="mailto:UserName@domain_name.xxx" ...> and <address> element - <a href="path/filename.exe" ...> These 3 cursors are already working, implemented in a MSIE add-on feature which can be found here: http://www.draig.de/LinkBar/ Anyone can download the LinkBar version and install it on a IE browser and see how these 3 cursors work. A demo page (with or without LinkBar installed) can be found here: http://www10.brinkster.com/doctorunclear/HTMLJavascriptCSS/Cursors.html#Custom The html.css code could be updated to integrate these cursors. E.g.: a[target="_blank"] {cursor:-moz-open-blank-window;} Arguments (mostly usability ones) in favor for implementing these cursors can be found in WAI guidelines and in J. Nielsen columns. "(...) Have you ever selected a link to look at a new page, then discovered that the 'back' or 'go back' or 'previous page' control of your browser no longer seems to work? Surprise... the link you chose may have caused the new page to load in its own new window. If both pages are full-screen you may not know that you have two browser sessions on the go. (...) So, if your link spawns a new window, or causes another windows to 'pop up' on your display, or move the focus of the system to a new FRAME or Window, then the nice thing to do is to tell the user that something like that will happen." World Wide Web Consortium Accessibility Initiative regarding popups, 2000 http://www.w3.org/WAI/wcag-curric/sam77-0.htm "(...) Users often don't notice that a new window has opened, especially if they are using a small monitor where the windows are maximized to fill up the screen." Jakob Nielsen, The Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design: 2. Opening New Browser Windows, May 30, 1999 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/990530.html "(...)8. Use link titles to provide users with a preview of where each link will take them, *before* they have clicked on it." Ten Good Deeds in Web Design http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html "10. Mailto Links in Unexpected Locations (...) Mailto links should be used on anchors that explicitly indicate that they're email addresses, either by their format (donald@duck.com) or their wording (send email to customer support)." Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html

bug 169678 ?

(In reply to comment #1) > bug 169678 ? Thank you for reporting this. I was so sure there wouldn't be a duplicate for this that I did not check. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169678 ***