185751 - Text fields (input, textarea) should pass page up/down to content

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[S Woodside]

There are a number of keybindings that only make sense in multiple lines text
fields but are caught in single-line textfields. PageUp, PageDown, Cmd-UpArrow,
Cmd-DownArrow, are included in this category. These should not be caught when
the cursor is active in a single line text field. Instead they should be passed
to the browser and work on the main view.

Single line text fields include TEXT form fields and the location bar.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Confirming

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

In gecko, the keybindings are defined here:
 
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/xbl/builtin/mac/platformHTMLBindings.xml
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/xbl/builtin/htmlBindings.xml

I don't see PageUp and PageDown defined for input fields in my chimera tree
(almost a month old?).  I don't know why this would be broken (without actually
debugging it). 

Command-Up and Command-Down could be removed (I'm indifferent at the moment)
since Up and Down arrow keys have the same functionality.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Simon can you confirm with newer builds ?

Comment 4

[S Woodside]

in my own build from about 2 weeks ago, PageUp and PageDown do nothing in INPUT
fields and in the URL bar.

Comment 5

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Safari passes them from both <input> and <textarea>.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Did anyone ever look into simply adding the keybindings to the appropriate file? I sort of vaguely remember doing that for one of our keybindings bugs but I didn't comment about it failing to work (or not) here, so I'm assuming this wasn't the one.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Taking to keep it on my radar.