241621 - space doesn't scroll when XHTML link has focus

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase (application/xhtml+xml)

Steps to reproduce:
1. Focus the link in the testcase.
2. Press space.

Expected: scroll down a page
Result: nothing happens

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040423
Firefox/0.8.0+

Comment 2

[Stefan Borggraefe]

Also happens with a Seamonkey nightly build from yesterday on Linux.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Very odd....  XHTML and HTML <a> elements are the same class and share the same
event-handling code, none of which ever looks at space bar presses....

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See the patch in bug 214843 -- it changed code like:

focusedElement->GetTagName(tagName);
if (tagName == NS_LITERAL_STRING("A")) {

to something that may work in XHTML... so this may be fixed.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Yes, that fixed it :)

Comment 6

[Aaron Leventhal]

Let's not forget that future versions of XHTML may allow an href on any element.
Then we're going to have to go back and look for any code like this.