231688 - TAB navigation in two-pane has duplicate stop

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227646

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Andrew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

If the Mail/News window has two windows open by closing the curtain on the
message window, the TAB keyboard navigation has an extra stop in the message
header window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In three-pane window, close the curtain on the message
2. Click a server or account (now highlighted with focus)
3. ENTER to expand the server/account
4. Select a folder with messages
5. Press TAB  // Focus to Quicksort
6. Press TAB  // Focus to Quicksearch
7. Press TAB  // Focus to a message header
8. (optional) UP/DOWN to select a header.  ENTER to open in new window 
9. Press TAB  // Focus lost to message header, but still highlighted (grey)
10. UP/DoWN to select a header.  ENTER to open in new window
Actual Results:  
Opened the selected message that didn't have focus in a new window.
I would not expect to be able to move the selection if the control doesn't have
focus in step 10.

Step 8 is optional, just to see that even after pressing TAB to leave the
message header window, you can still move focus around.


Expected Results:  
The 4th TAB should have returned back to the server/account window.

Related possibly to Bug 203386

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227646 ***