205509 - Pause in keystrokes causes dropdown list to discontinue find as you type.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Sonny Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

I have a dropdown list of names from a database.  If I type SONNY without
pausing,  the selected item changes in the list with each keystroke and I end up
on the first person named Sonny.  If I type SON, then pause, then type N, it
jumps back to the first name beginning with an N.  It would be nice if the time
delay were a configurable option in Preferences, so that you could either
increase it or turn it off entirely.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

This is the intended behavior, the same as in Microsoft Windows dropdowns.

I realizes it's not the ideal accessible behavior, especially because you cannot
configure the timeout -- but we're mimicing Windows' behavior with our widgets.

If you want to try fixing it to be configurable, then go ahead and make a hidden
pref for it or something. The current timeout is in the code here:

http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/layout/html/forms/src/nsListControlFrame.cpp#106