144050 - After unfocusing (blur) a link, no JavaScript output to the status bar is possible

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P2)

Description

[Roland Unger]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Win98; U)
BuildID:    2002051006

Similar to onmouseover/onmouseout it should possible to use onfocus/onblur to 
give information to the status bar using a
JavaScript script. In the example given at URL you can test it both
by mouse and by pressing TAB on the keyboard. In case of mouse event handling, 
it works correct. If you press the TAB key, at the first time the output is 
correct, later on a output is impossible but the
procedure is called (checked with alert method).
It seems that this problem is relatated to the bug 133874 (unfocusing a link 
should remove url from status bar).

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.http://www.soziologie.uni-halle.de/bugzilla_test_file.html
2.Press Tab Key and have a view to the status bar.
3.

Actual Results:  After first link, in the status bar the URL but not the 
JavaScript output (title of <a href>) is given.

Expected Results:  Correct JavaScript output.

Similar to bug 38380 ([ESM/CSS] css a:hover ignored on link with javascript 
"onMouseover" and "return true;") this bug should have a high priority: onfocus 
and onblur are the alternative attributes to onmouseover and onmouseout in case 
of using the keyboard. The correct working is necessary for web accessibilty 
reasons for handicapped
persons.
Maybe a new problem occurs: Collisions between keyboard and mouse events when 
they were used simultaneously: after onmouseout the output of a focused link 
should be restored.

Comment 1

[John S. Musarra]

Reporter: Clicking the link that you have provided gets me a "404 - File Not
Found" error at that site. Please either provide a working link, or upload your
.html file to bugzilla as an attachment. Otherwise, it will be more difficult to
reproduce / confirm / fix this bug. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Roland Unger]

Attachment: focus/blur test file

Comment 3

[Roland Unger]

Both an attachment is added; the weblink works, too.

Comment 4

[Keyser Sose]

WFM Mozilla 1.0 Windows 98


Marking as such.