Update: Paulius Uza has run an extensive user test on the right-click code and concludes that the code is reliable 86% of the time across the major browsers.

Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of the Javascript incompatibilities, it will soon see the end of the Flash context-menu.

We hope.

Paulius Uza has created a right-click testing script and he needs your help. Please visit the test page, right-click on the SWF and then vote yes or no to let him know if the code is working correctly. The script will automatically send browser type, version and OS back to Paulius for analysis.

You can visit the project home on Google Code at: http://code.google.com/p/custom-context-menu/

I have created a project on Google Code for the custom context-menu.

http://code.google.com/p/custom-context-menu/

I have copied all the comments from my original posting over to the issues tab, uploaded the code, made a few wiki entries and such. This is the first time I’ve ever used Google Code so please feel free to make any improvements to what I’ve started.

There isn’t much that I can do beyond this point other than to ask everyone interested to blog about this so that hopefully some Javascript experts can jump on this and get this working reliably.

I’m going to look into creating an interactive chart that we might be able to use to track testing. Hopefully I’ll be adding a custom right-click to the charting app real soon. :-)

Update: I’ve created a project on Google Code for this in the hopes of getting some Javascript experts to make the code work reliably in all the browsers that support the Actionscript External Interface.

I’ve never started or worked on an open source project before and I’d like the communities suggestions on what you think would be the best path going forward to make the custom Flash context-menu project successful.

I think there are enough people out there who have an interest in this and the knowledge to make this work reliably on a majority of the browsers out there today.

My first guess is that Google Code would be a good base of operations. I’ll also look into OSflash.org. Please weigh in with your suggestions.

Thanks,

dan