193073 - Type-ahead should be able to override "onfocus="blur()" for links

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Østergaard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

The site has links of type 

 <script language="javascript"> G34(514368,'','Det kniber med det rene vand');
</script>

invoking the following function:

<script Language="Javascript">function G34(PID, trumpet, rubrik)
{ document.write(trumpet+' <a href="/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID='+(PID-1946)/2+'"
class=noline onfocus="this.blur()">' + rubrik + '</a>'); }
</SCRIPT>

Typeahead find the links as usual, but it is not possible to activate them by
pressing enter. The links work fine if you click them with the mouse.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use typeahead to find links on page
2. Press enter

Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Typeahead should follow the links, since mozilla has no problem recognizing them
as such.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> onfocus="this.blur()"

This means you can't even focus the link to hit enter on it.  Which seems to be
a conscious decision on the part of the site to lock out keyboard users from
using that link (the wisdom of this decision is questionable).

Comment 2

[Thomas Østergaard]

Ok, comment #1 is correct, I should have checked if ordinary keyboard navigation
was possible on the site. However, since it would be extra nice if type-ahead
worked with these kind of pages, I'm changing the bug to a enhancement request,
that type-ahead should be able to override "blur()" for links. I am not capable
of judging whether this is technically possible.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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