dijit/Menu: Executing wrong menu item when using keyboard and mouse

[jvoccia]

Using this JSFiddle: ​http://jsfiddle.net/H7Zh8/112/

Select either 1.9.3 or 1.10.0 from the left drop down. Click Run.

Right click on "Right Click Me"

A menu pops up.

Use your keyboard arrows to navigate to Item 5

Now use your mouse to hover over Item 1 - you should see the highlight over Item 1

Now press the enter key on your keyboard.

I would expect Item 1 to be selected since it is highlighted. Instead Item 5 is selected.

[bill]

Hover doesn't affect focus (just like hovering one <input> doesn't defocus the currently focused <input>). It used to (see ​test_Menu.html in 1.8), but was changed for 1.9 (see ​test_Menu.html in 1.9)

IIRC the change was intentional, although I notice that the system menus on macs and windows work as you expect, where hover affects focus.

In any case I agree the current behavior is confusing, so either the behavior or the UI should be changed.

[dylan]

Given that no one has shown interest in creating a patch in more than a year, I'm closing this as patchwelcome. Please let us know if you would like to get involved in helping make this change to Dojo!