1313131 - Pressing Left/Right/Up/Down arrows on <Select> has issues

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

STR:
1. Navigate to https://people.mozilla.org/~mnoorenberghe/w3c_notifications.htm
2. Click the Direction datalist
3. Navigate through the list by pressing the left/right/up/down arrows.

Actual:
E10s=True:
Pressing Left/Right arrows does nothing. Up/Down loops through the list.

E10s=False:
Pressing Left/Right arrows navigates Up/down through the list. Left/Right/Up/Down does not loop through the list. stops a position 0 and length-1

Affected OSes Windows and Ubuntu

Comment 1

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

mozregression --good 2014-05-20 --bad 2014-05-21 

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=cb9f34f73ebe&tocha
nge=9d8d16695f6a

Comment 2

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

Same reasoning as bug 1313130.

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

This is the system behavior:

Mac:  doesn't loop, left/right do nothing
Linux: loops, left/right do nothing
Windows, menus: loops, left/right do nothing
Windows, dropdowns: doesn't loop, left/right do nothing

Linux is correct currently.

Changes needed:

1. Mac should never loop for any menu or dropdown.
2. Windows should never loop for dropdowns only.
3. Windows dropdowns navigate when left/right is pressed.

The non-looping behaviour can be easily changed. I'm not sure if (3) is worth adding the extra complexity for; neither Chrome nor IE handle this either. Regardless it would be a low priority.

Comment 4

[Neil Deakin]

Attachment: Don't wrap when pressing cursor up/down in the right places for menus/menulists

Comment 5

[Neil Deakin]

Attachment: Don't wrap when pressing cursor up/down in the right places for menus/menulists, also fix some tests

Some tests need to be adjusted as they rely on wrapping occurring.

Comment 6

[Robin Steuber (they/them) [:bytesized]]

Comment on attachment 8811232 [details] [diff] [review]
Don't wrap when pressing cursor up/down in the right places for menus/menulists, also fix some tests

Review of attachment 8811232 [details] [diff] [review]:
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::: toolkit/content/tests/chrome/test_menulist_keynav.xul
@@ +265,5 @@
> +  list.selectedIndex = 3;
> +  list.menuBoxObject.activeChild = list.selectedItem;
> +  synthesizeKey("VK_DOWN", { });
> +  is(list.menuBoxObject.activeChild,
> +     document.getElementById(iswin || ismac ? "b4" : "b1"), "cursor up wrap while open");

It looks like the text on this line should say "cursor down wrap while open".

Comment 7

[Neil Deakin]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/4ed7a34ea7ab5e1f9febafca8133c9959e151db5
Bug 1313131, don't wrap when using cursor navigation in menus onr dropdowns on Mac, or dropdowns on Windows, r=ksteuber

Comment 8

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

sorry had to back this out in https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=mozilla-inbound&revision=a925f48bcc829d19b1c9f35d15c5a5f03b23b91c for eslint failures like https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer.html#?job_id=39364546&repo=mozilla-inbound

Comment 9

[Pulsebot]

Backout by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/68e56e111cb0
Backed out changeset 4ed7a34ea7ab

Comment 10

[Neil Deakin]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/98d67bafe40ad311ecb0c6b07358840ae86a2e0c
Bug 1313131, don't wrap when using cursor navigation in menus onr dropdowns on Mac, or dropdowns on Windows, r=ksteuber

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/98d67bafe40a

Comment 12

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

I can verify that it does not loop anymore. But, when e10s is enabled Left & Right arrows do nothing and with e10's disabled Left & Right go Up & Down. Only half of what was reported has been fixed.

Comment 13

[Neil Deakin]

As indicated in comment 3, I don't think the left/right behaviour is worth adding the extra complexity for, and it only applies to dropdowns on Windows. But please file a separate bug for it so it is easier to track.

Comment 14

[areya]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/98d67bafe40a

Comment 15

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Neil, want to uplift this fix to aurora and possibly beta?

Comment 16

[Neil Deakin]

(In reply to Liz Henry (:lizzard) (needinfo? me) from comment #15)
> Neil, want to uplift this fix to aurora and possibly beta?

I don't see any reason to.

Comment 17

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Justin, did the follow-up bug requested in comment 13 ever get filed?

Comment 18

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

Sorry for the late reply. I was not getting the ni emails for this until last night. I just filed the bug. it is bug 1321810

Comment 19

[Kazi Nuzhat Tasnem]

I have reproduced this bug with Firefox nightly 52.0a1(build id:20161026030210)on
windows 7(64 bit)

I have verified this bug as fixed with Firefox beta 53.0b9 (build id:20170403072723)
User Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0

 [bugday-20170405]

Comment 20

[Mihai Boldan, Desktop QA [:mboldan]]

Tanks Kazi Nuzhat Tasnem for testing.

I also confirm that the issue is no longer reproducible on Firefox 53.0b9, under Mac OS X 10.12.2, or under Ubuntu 16.04x64.

Note that on Ubuntu, Up/Down loops through the list, which is expected according to Comment 3.

I'm marking this issue Verified Fixed.