118290 - NS_THEME and keyboard bindings, hit detection

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

We should work out how to leverage the theme APIs to emulate native keyboard
bindings and native hit detection along with native rendering.

For example, Ctrl+Up in a tree should, on Windows, move the focus up one item
while leaving the selection unchanged. It would be nice to have a cross-platform
way of saying "assign the key binding which natively does X to handler Y".

Similarly, there are certain areas of widgets that should trigger "click" events
when clicked on, and others that should act dead.

Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This would allow us to do away with all the small bits for scrollbars and so on.
Those are especially a problem for Mac scrollbars.

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

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