389225 - Difference to mechanism of the key-in (IME) with JavaScript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Hiroshi Kuroki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070604 Firefox/2.0.0.4 Navigator/9.0b1

I can not input and convert Japanese char in a program of a certain Javascript. 
It occurred only in Macintosh(Mac OS X),FF2.0 later.

SPACE is a key starting Japanese conversion in IME, but SPACE is just input when I input this key. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
I examined a key cord in this site 
http://mochikit.com/examples/key_events/index.html

in FF1.5 ,Mac  ,when it is a Japanese input mode, I can get  only onkeyup key event.
in FF2.0 ,Mac  ,  can get  onkeyup and onkeydown key event.
in FF2.0 ,Win   ,  nothing picks up the key code.

Because the handling of key event was changed when a version of Firefox was replaced from 1.5 to 2.0, 
I thought that such a difference occurred only in Macintosh version.

Comment 1

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

We dropped the old mac widget in Fx3. Can you still reproduce this bug with Fx3?

Comment 2

[Po-chiang Chao [:bobchao]]

Just heard about another situation from my friend, seems like the same problem:

1. Go to http://www.plurk.com/, login with your account.
2. Input some text in the "status update" input field.
3. Switch to IME mode (in this case my friend use "Yahoo!Kimo IME" from http://tw.download.yahoo.com/keykey/)
4. try to input some text in the candidate panel of the IME, and press Enter.

Expect:

text in the candidate panel shows on the field, right after the text input in step 2. You can then press Enter again to update the message.

Result:

After you press Enter, the update message sent with text in Step 2 only.



Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; zh-TW; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061004 Firefox/3.0

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

Po-chiang:

Probably, it's not related this bug, please file a new bug.

Kuroki-san:

Probably, you can another issue on Fx3 and later. I improved IME state management. By the improvements, we cannot enable IME at non-normal editor contents. E.g., at a password fields having focus, at an anchor element having focus and also at no contents having focus. So, we cannot test in the URL in comment 0.

Marking this bug to WFM for now. If you still have the reported problem, please reopen this bug.