9088 - Inconsistent behavior when arrow keys used in Location: control

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect, P2)

Description

[cpratt]

Build ID: 19990630**
Platform: Win32, Linux, Mac OS

To reproduce:
- Click into the Location: control and position the insertion cursor to the left
of the URL.
- Press the down arrow key.

Result:
All three platforms behave differently. On Win32, the cursor moves to the right
once for each press. On the Mac, the cursor moves to the end of the URL. On
Linux, focus is lost.

Expected result:
Frankly, I'm not sure what the expected result is. I'm guessing that the
(currently) expected result is the Mac behavior: that the cursor moves to the
end of the URL. In the future, I'm guessing that the expected result would be to
move up and down along the list of visited URLs.

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

Taking this from Tom, at Tom's request

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

Steve, this is an edit control bug that does not have to do with resizing. It
actually may even be fixed, because I am not seeing the described behavior on NT

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

on Mac, the current behavior is to not move the caret with up/down arrows.  I
would consider that a bug since the caret should move to the beginning/end of the
line.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign to [e-mail]

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

adding to the event handling tracking bug

Comment 6

[Kathleen :Brade]

Changing summary from "cursor" to "arrow"

Comment 7

[rubydoo123]

moving to m16 - load balance

Comment 8

[mjudge]

this works the way that edit fields natively work on these platforms i believe. 
please give examples where this is wrong. I am listing this as fixed. open up 
platform specific bugs on those platforms behaving badly

Comment 9

[Jan Carpenter]

WinNT
ACTUAL: Up/down arrow keys delete the url.  Even reloading does not bring 
it back.  Left/right arrow keys go left or right by one char.

Win98
ACTUAL: Up/down arrow keys do nothing.  Left/right arrow keys also do 
nothing.

Linux
ACTUAL: Up/down arrow keys both go to the last url in history. Left/right arrow 
keys go left or right by one char.

Mac
ACTUAL: Up/down arrow keys delete the url.  Even reloading does not bring 
it back.  Left/right arrow keys go left or right by one char. (Same as NT)

EXPECTED on all platforms: 
Up/down arrow keys should move backward or forward 1 URL at a time through 
history.  Left/right arrow keys go left or right by 1 char.

reopening bug.  Changing component to history. I think this should go to radha, 
but I can't change the assigned to field.  Adding radha onto cc list. (Apologies 
if these changes are incorrect.)

Comment 10

[Jan Carpenter]

doh! brain took a vacation.  I can too change the "assigned to" field.

Comment 11

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage team: german: can you confirm what the UE opinion on this is. P2 for 
next Beta. thanks. 

Comment 12

[David Hallowell]

Nominating for Mozilla 0.9.1 because this is an important keyboard accessibility
issue and therefore should be fixed before Mozilla's 1.0 release.

The target milestone is in need of updating.

Comment 13

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

On Windows, Up and Down should do nothing. (Replacing the current contents of the 
field with previous/next history values would be more confusing than useful.) On 
other platforms, Up and Down should go to the beginning/end of the field. This is 
the expected behavior for any textfield, so this bug should really be in
`XP Toolkit: Widgets' rather than `History'.

Comment 14

[timeless]

Up and down on windows should drop down the history list.  Yes they shouldn't 
automatically navigate, but they should drop it down.

zapping m16.

Comment 15

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Marking nsbeta1+

Comment 16

[Alec Flett]

moving these bugs to History: URLBar

Comment 17

[Paul Chen]

Removing nsbeta1+ status whiteboard, changing nsbeta1 keyword to nsbeta1+

Comment 18

[Jan Carpenter]

not my area, reassigning to gerardok

Comment 19

[Aaron Leventhal]

On Windows, this now drops down the autocomplete box, or navigates into it.

Does it do this on other platforms now? Is it now consistent?

Comment 20

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

hitting down in the url bar on all platforms no drops down the auto complete
widget, marking worksforme

Comment 21

[cpratt]

Wait two years three weeks on most bugs and WORKSFORME does become a valid 
resolution. I'll just assume Paul's right and verify this as such.