443043 - Firefox - hook snav up to browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Attachment: patch v.1

After 436084, spatial navigation will be part of the toolkit, but not hooked up to firefox.  This patch makes spatial navigation work in the browser, but requires a preference (snav.enabled = true) to actually do anything.

Comment 1

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

probably bug 296855 can be dup of this, once it has a newer patch that really hooks it up to ff

dougt ?

Comment 3

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

Attachment: updated to newest way of hookup snav

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

someone should write an addon to do this.  Antonio?

Comment 5

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

ohh .. I just missed that bug. 

dougt: Yeah, I can write an addon for that. Apart from hook it up, I will include support for snav pref set.

Comment 6

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

just got a addon for that. Code lives in 

http://easysnav.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

I have not uploaded it to amo bacause it needs some small changes in SNAV code itself: bug 463139 and bug 463514 (both waiting for review).

Comment 7

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

so I finally got some time to implement that and just submitted to AMO. It is in the sandbox now -> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10004

dougt, could you give it a try ? 

how could we close this bug ?

Comment 8

[jakub.g]

Has spatial navigation been forgotten for good with no hope of integration into Firefox?

All the add-ons mentioned are no longer available on AMO.

I've tried http://www.without-mouse.com, it's a nice attempt, but does not integrate well with many Firefox functions like caret browsing, focus (implies: can't do CTRL-ENTER on links, since it does not use focus, but separate add-on way to navigate), overrides normal arrows' functions (instead of adding new key bindings, or having it configurable), and seems to be leaking like a sieve in my Fx14 add-on heavy profile (much better in Nightly17, perhaps due to the famous zombie compartments fix).

Comment 9

[Piotr Dobrogost]

Reading comments here and in bug 296855 it seems like this has already been implemented for a long time.
What exactly is preventing this feature from getting into Firefox?

Comment 10

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

As far as I can tell, Spatial Navigation has been removed from trunk long ago. Wontfix?

Comment 11

[Piotr Dobrogost]

(In reply to Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo) from comment #10)
> As far as I can tell, Spatial Navigation has been removed from trunk long
> ago. Wontfix?

Could someone please put link to this deletion and rationale for removing this feature?

Comment 12

[Alice0775 White]

Bug 670880