1249398 - focus does not fire on click for <button> elements on Mac

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Tyler]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160210153822

Steps to reproduce:

On Firefox 44.0.2 on Macintosh OSX, clicking a <button> element does not fire onfocus.

Repro:
https://jsfiddle.net/bkp1c9cw/

This is documented a little here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button#Clicking_and_focus


Actual results:

Nothing happened. Tabbing still worked


Expected results:

The :focus should have been applied and the element's styles changed.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

I think this behavior is intentional on OSX, to be compatible with how native buttons work
on that platform.

Does Safari make a button match :focus after you click on it?

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(In reply to Mats Palmgren (:mats) from comment #1)
> Does Safari make a button match :focus after you click on it?

I tested this in Safari 8.0.8 on OSX and the answer is no.

Clicking a button doesn't focus it on OSX, so it shouldn't match :focus
nor fire focus events.  We're compatible with Safari in this regard.
I'm resolving this as Wontfix since our current behavior is intentionally
following platform conventions on OSX.