1178530 - search not working in foxcasts app

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Feedback, defect)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:41.0) Gecko/41.0 Firefox/41.0

I can't seem to focus the search input area in foxcasts app which makes it not usable.

Comment 1

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

So, this is def. a bug, likely in the app. For whatever reason, the search input never receives focus. It's possible there's a subtle Gecko bug here, but it would be good for the app author to take a look.

Being an app, this wouldn't live in Tech Evangelism::Mobile, the closest thing is probably Preinstalled B2G Apps.

Doug, what's the usual process to track down an app author? Is there someone to ping?

Comment 2

[Garrett Downs]

Heya,

I'm the developer of Foxcasts. I've received a few bug reports about this all from people running B2G on Sony Xperia Z3s. I'm unable to replicate it on my Flame or the emulator.

Thoughts?

Comment 3

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Search in Foxcasts works for me in the simulator and on my Flame as well.

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Ah, that's good feedback Garrett and Robert. This means it's probably a (device-specific?) Gecko/Gaia bug, and not something in your code.

Comment 5

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

I saw this over the weekend with the Z3c. Never had a problem on Flame. Very frustrating. Needinfo me if I can help debug, Garrett.

Comment 6

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

(In reply to Garrett Downs from comment #2)

> I'm the developer of Foxcasts. I've received a few bug reports about this
> all from people running B2G on Sony Xperia Z3s.

See also https://github.com/choorp/foxcasts/issues/6


FWIW, I'm able to open the keyboard by manually focusing the element in devtools:

  document.querySelector('#app_mainView_search_query').focus();

Comment 7

[Ralph Giles (:rillian)]

If it's an app bug, it might be in the enyo js framework. The code sets 'defaultFocus: true' on creating the input but the enclosing <label> element gets the 'onyx-focused' class, not the <input> itself.

  https://github.com/choorp/foxcasts/blob/master/source/views/Search.js#L13

The disaster is that not only does it not get focus when the panel is opened, but tapping doesn't focus the element either.

Comment 8

[Garrett Downs]

Is there any way I can run this B2G without a device? I notice everyone seems to be using Z3s. I can run FirefoxOS on my Flame and the emulator, but this issue doesn't occur when using those.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on