219049 - No focus with js on rich textarea/iframe when permission raise or lower windows blocked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300453

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Firebird/0.6.1+

http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/midas/01/example2-index.html
In this demo, after you have clicked on one of the buttons, the focus returns to
the rich textarea in Mozilla. In Firebird, the focus is not returned to the rich
textarea. This should be done, because it is explicitly set in the function in
that demo:
document.getElementById('editorWindow').contentWindow.focus()
So this doesn't work in Firebird.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the demo
2.Click on one of the buttons
3.

Actual Results:  
No focus on the rich textarea

Expected Results:  
The rich textarea should be focused

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

WFM winXP Gecko/20030910 Firebird/0.6.1+ & 0.6.1 milestone.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I see now that I had in:
Tools --> Options --> Web features --> Enable Javascript --> Advanced --> Raise
or lower windows.
I had that option turned off. When I turned that on again it worked well.
I see now it's my fault. Sorry.
Although it is maybe strange that the options also affects the focus on iframes.

Comment 3

[Bob Firth]

Resolvingas INVALID as per comment #2.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I think there is still a (small) issue.
When someone has the javascript permission: Raise or lower windows turned off,
you can't set the focus on an iframe (which could be a rich text area iframe).
For a web developer/programmer that would seem logical, because an iframe/frame
is a kind of a window, but I think one should be able to focus frames/iframes. 
Off course, the window which contains the frame/iframe should not be raised when
you are on a different window.
I can also put it in other words. When the pref raise or lower windows is
unchecked, windows should not be able to get focus, but page elements, or
windows in ifram/frame elements should still be able to get focus in their own
parent window.

So, basically I would like to see it reopened. I hope I have made this issue
(which I think it is) a bit clearer.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->DOM

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->defaults

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This turns out to be more complicated to fix than I had initially thought. This
ends up being yet one more block in the jenga game that is focus. Cc:ing bryner.
We'll need the ability to focus a window w/o bringing its toplevel window to the
front in order to be able to fix this in the DOM code. I'm thinking this'll be a
lot easier to fix once bug 124750 is fixed.

Confirming.

Comment 8

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300453 ***