659599 - Hitting the return key should dismiss the virtual keyboard

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul [pwd]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110524 Firefox/6.0a1
Build Identifier: 

Pressing enter in a search <input> box does nothing, it should start a search or at the very least exit the box (in landscape) and return the user to the page.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

What do you call an <input> box? Can you give examples?

Comment 2

[Paul [pwd]]

STR:
1/ Put phone in landscape
2/ Click on an <input> (single line text box)
3/ Write some text
4/ Click enter

Expected Results: You should be taken back to the page out of the editor.

Actual Results: You're left within the text editor.

Comment 3

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Just as a use case : What about forms that have multiple input text boxes?
http://people.mozilla.org/~nhirata/html_tp/formsninput.html

Personally, I would find it annoying if I hit return, had to click on a field for input and the VKB was animating back and forth every time.  Not sure how others feel.

Comment 4

[Paul [pwd]]

if you hit enter in a normal input box it submits the form, why would you ignore convention completely on mobile?

Comment 5

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

It depends on the text fields.  see the test page. that I linked in Comment 3.  First text boxes doesn't submit the form, the username field will submit the form.  This occurs even in mobile.

Personally, I think mobile conventions should be slightly different because it's a different type of user interface (touch interface/typing on a mobile device is more of a pain IMHO) with different limitation (such as size/spacing/memory, etc.).  that's just my belief though.

Comment 6

[Paul [pwd]]

Please note this bug is about input boxes and not textareas. also note that the slightly different convention is exiting the input box and not submitting the form.

Comment 7

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Well, perhaps it's my misunderstanding, but I am not sure what you are referring to when you state input boxes based on your last comment.  Can you give an example of some html code?

Comment 8

[Paul [pwd]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Well, perhaps it's my misunderstanding, but I am not sure what you are
> referring to when you state input boxes based on your last comment.  Can you
> give an example of some html code?
To use html from this very page:

<input id="status_whiteboard" name="status_whiteboard" class="text_input" value="" size="40"> = Dismiss virtual keyboard.

<textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="10" cols="80"></textarea> = Create new line within editor.

Comment 9

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

I apologize.   I see your point in landscape where you can't see anything.  I suppose it was my fault for reading too fast.

Comment 10

[Vivien Nicolas (:vingtetun) (:21) - (NOT reading bugmails, needinfo? please)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I apologize.   I see your point in landscape where you can't see anything. 
> I suppose it was my fault for reading too fast.

Not completely your fault, i was myself thinking about it silently to be sure to understand the point.

Comment 11

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component