105224 - no keyboard functions for www.iht.com

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

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

Description

[Oscar van Vliet]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    2001101117

This is very specific to the IHT page (at least, I haven't visited any other
pages that showed it but I read this one every day).

Basically, keyboard navigation or shortcuts do not work when using a windows
that shows www.iht.com. When switching to another window, the keys function
perfectly.
This was not in 0.9.4 and appeared immediatly after I installed the 0.9.5
release build.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Open http://www.iht.com
3. Attempt to use the keyboard

Actual Results:  nothing

Expected Results:  page scrolling, new window opening - at least something

I recall I used to have keyboard issues with the International Herald Tribune
before. The bug was fixed two or three release version ago so this might be a
regression. I suspect it is because of the weird javascript and other code in there.

Nominating as normal, since a major feature is broken but there is an easy
workaround.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

WFM 2001101503 on Win2k.

Reporter: Does this occur for you on a more recent build?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
(as always, be sure to delete your old Mozilla directory before installing the
new one)

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

Not sure where we are with this.

With one of my builds I wasn't able to tab past the first link.

It's probably fixed by bryner's new tabbing patch

Comment 3

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

fixed

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

unable to test the site mentioned here as it causes the browser to crash --filed
bug 108994.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

able to scroll using the keyboard at the test url. vrfy'd fixed using
2002.01.07.0x comm bits on linux rh7.2, winnt and mac 10.1.2.