195761 - Find as you type menu items ghosted/disabled when form element has focus

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[Stefan Borggraefe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030303
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030303

The new menu items for Find As You type are ghosted when a form element has the
focus. I think this is quite confusing for the user. Why can´t I use search the
content of a page with Find as you type when I´m using a form?
Sometimes the user may not even notice that a form element has the focus. In any
case this is not traceable for an average user.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a web page with form elements in it, i.e. this bug report. ;-)
2. Focus a form element, for example a textarea.
3. Check the two Find As You Type menu items in the Edit Menu.

Actual Results:  
The menu items are ghosted.

Expected Results:  
The menu items should always be enabled.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

looks like focusing any form element --except for radiobuttons (that's odd)--
disables the FAYT menu items. also see this on linux rh8.0 -> all.

aaronl, is this expected behavior? if so, why are radiobuttons the exception here?

i wouldn't be too surprised about this being expected, esp since Find in Page
doesn't work for textareas (an old, old bug)...

Comment 2

[Aaron Leventhal]

This is on purpose.

Right now it's just too difficult to keep / and ' from getting swallowed on mac
os x when you're enterying text, unless the menu items are disabled.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

aaronl, could you explain why radiobuttons don't cause the same disabling effect?

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

I only disabled the menu items on form controls where / or ' might be important.
They're not important on radio buttons or checkboxes.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Works as expected.