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19. September 2011, 16:42:42

vvunai

Posts: 16

Support of CSS custom cursors via cursor:url()

I believe Opera is just one feature short of being the best Internet browser that I would recommend to each of my customers: the lack of support for CSS' cursor:url(...)

We rely on that for a feature in our intranet-application where the user has to "pin" items to an image: the item to pin is set as a cursor so that user will know the exact position of the pinning (we have many reasons for using CSS instead of javascript).

We are requiring our customers to use a Gecko-based browser (SeaMonkey or FireFox) solely for the lack of support of that feature in Opera, otherwise we would install Opera as the end-user's browser on all machines.

Will this be implemented someday? Or was it decided for some reason that cursor:url() shouldn't work with Presto?

Thank you

CSS support of cursor:url()

Option	Results		Votes
YES! That would be great!		65%	11
No, I have reasons why this shouln't ever be implemented [please explain]		18%	3
I don't know / I don't care		18%	3
	Total number of votes:		17

19. September 2011, 20:24:55

c69

Posts: 354

http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto27/css/basicuserinterface/
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto28/css/basicuserinterface/
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto29/css/basicuserinterface/

Opera claims to support cursor with uri values, but it does not specify what formats one should use, and how is it possible to enable it ...

20. September 2011, 10:20:30

Frenzie

Posts: 15571

http://beradrian.users.sourceforge.net/articles/cursor.html

This page works in Fx but not in Opera.

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21. September 2011, 08:54:04

vvunai

Posts: 16

Originally posted by purgossu:

Originally posted by Frenzie:
http://beradrian.users.sourceforge.net/articles/cursor.html

This page works in Fx but not in Opera.

Works fine in IE9, too. Maybe shall it be notified as a bug?

Indeed!
It works on all major browsers except Opera!
WebKit-based (Chromium, Google Chrome, Safari, SRWare Iron, rekonq): OK.
Gecko-based (Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Firefox): OK.
Trident-based (Internet Explorer 6/7/8/9): OK.

30. September 2011, 15:36:26

vvunai

Posts: 16

Originally posted by purgossu:

Reported as DSK-346717.
Anyway, it seems to be more a work to do than a bug. According to Wikipedia:
Originally posted by "Wikipedia":
Presto property notes
cursor — cursor is ignored with dynamic pseudo-classes and custom cursors are unsupported

Well, I hope they implement that soon: one of the key strengths of Opera is standards compliance... Presto should keep up with all CSS bells&whistles

11. October 2011, 08:24:06

vvunai

Posts: 16

I've reported the bug too: do they usually give feedback on reports?

11. October 2011, 08:46:58

mochikun

Posts: 940

Originally posted by vvunai:

I've reported the bug too: do they usually give feedback on reports?

Usually not, especially when the bug is reported twice:"If the bug is being discussed, it has probably been reported already. In this case, do not file a bug report, as any report filed will be marked as a duplicate. This wastes both your time and the time that we could better spend resolving existing issues."

Opera 11.64,Puppy Linux 5.6 Precise

26. October 2011, 13:56:07

vvunai

Posts: 16

(still not fixed in v. 11.52)

6. December 2011, 08:47:29

vvunai

Posts: 16

Still not working in Opera 11.60

6. December 2011, 08:51:44

vvunai

Posts: 16

Presto in the very only one engine missing this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_URL_values_for_the_cursor_property

10. December 2011, 10:23:38

Emdek

Posts: 249

Needs to be fixed, however specification doesn't list which formats should be supported (that example code is more like hint, what should be supported, not what must)...

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-ui/#cursor

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5. January 2012, 19:01:49

vvunai

Posts: 16

...trying with Opera 12 build 1211: still unsupported.

28. July 2012, 09:17:34

vvunai

Posts: 16

Opera 12.50 internal Build 1513: still nothing...

Can anyone at Opera's say if it will EVER be implemented?

5. August 2013, 08:49:52