111488 - Some pages do not default to focus in main window

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Scott Roland]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    0.9.6

If I type in the address www.yahoo.com into the location bar and hit
return; when the page loads I can use the keyboard to scroll the screen
(space, arrows, PageUp, PageDown, etc.). This is the desired function.

If I type in the address www.news.com into the location bar and hit
return it is unclear where the focus is, the keyboaard cannot be used to scroll
until I click into the main window with the mouse.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type www.news.com into location bar and hit reutrn.
2.Hit arrow keys.
3.

Actual Results:  Page does not scroll.

Expected Results:  Page should scroll in response to arrow keys.

Comment 1

[John Morrison]

To a large degree, this is news.com's own doing. When you go to www.news.com
it returns 
  <frameset rows="100%,*"><frame src="http://news.cnet.com/"></frameset>

It's a general problem with how to decide which child frame to focus (well, 
in general you can't, although some heuristic could be applied to handle 
the particular case of '100%,*'. (This also stumps IE5.5 on win2k.)

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

--> default owner

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

well news.com no longer employs this "iframe wrapper" (possibly because it 
couldn't be immediately scrolled). And we aren't going to implement anything
to try to "guess around" this situation.