305657 - Make Spatial Navigation not listen to key press handlers if page has its own handlers

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

When a page has key press handlers, spatial navigation shouldn't be listen to them.

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

This sounds like something that would need hooks into DOM events code; cc'ing smaug.

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

mass reassigning to nobody.

Comment 3

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

taking the bug. 

microb provides something close to this, lets try to adapt the solution

Comment 4

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> microb provides something close to this, lets try to adapt the solution

hum, what microb actually does it to provide a black-list of sites where snav should be disable, because there known issues, or anything else ...

so doug, would it still be desired to have in new snav implementation ? (in js)

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Bug 448602 could be used to check if there are JS listeners for untrusted 
keypress events. That would be probably a bit slow if the whole DOM must be traversed - but I don't know any better way. We don't have any flags or anything
which could tell if the page has key event listeners.

Comment 6

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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