421912 - European Keyboards fail to register Shift and Alt-Gr

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272847

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Timothy Soehnlin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3

In the attached website, you will see two flash objects, one with the attribute wmode=transparent and one without.  The one with wmode=transparent fails to handle keycodes properly for extended keyboard sets (tested with French-France, French-Canadian, UK-England keyboards).  This bug existed in Firefox2 and has been fixed partially (now in Firefox3 the key codes are mapped to the proper locale when passing event to a flash object).  The bug that is presenting itself is that the Shift key and Alt Gr keys are not being propagated to the flash object when it's wmode=transparent (without this it is fine).  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a European keyboard
2. Go to attached website
3. Try to type in a key requiring the use of the Shift or Alt Gr key in the box that uses wmode=transparent.
Actual Results:  
The key combination that is pressed ignores the modifiers of Shift and Alt-Gr resulting in the inability to type specific key combinations.

Expected Results:  
Type the proper character corresponding to the key combination.

Comment 1

[Timothy Soehnlin]

On another note, the shift key seems to be registered, but when pressing the shift key the character set seems to revert to US Ascii.