455612 - Dpad does nothing (no scrolling)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 452274

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

The dpad on the Nokia n810 is supposed to scroll Fennec as an alternative to click and drag for scrolling. 

I have found that while I can hear the audible click events for the Dpad when Fennec is running, that nothing happens when it is used on a page. 

This was found with Stuart's build 20080915092910 from 9/15.

If you load the default start page, it is taller than the visible window. At that point, you should be able to use the dpad to scroll down. It does nothing. Even if the window is focused with a stylus and you then try, it does nothing.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The dpad isn't meant to directly scroll, since we use it for "spatial navigation" (navigating through links/form elements/etc. directionally instead of in document order). Bug 452274 covers us not panning when you navigate to offscreen elements.

Comment 2

[Antonio Gomes (tonikitoo)]

comment #1)
> The dpad isn't meant to directly scroll, since we use it for "spatial
> navigation" (navigating through links/form elements/etc. directionally instead
> of in document order). Bug 452274 covers us not panning when you navigate to
> offscreen elements.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 452274 ***

gavin, making long dpad press scrolling is something that could help users at some situations: pan (as is) fails on gmail, or any other page w/ overflow:hidden set ... as there is not scrollbars , gmail turns to a not very browsable page.

Also, maybe snav could be done in KeyUp() instead of KeyPress() as well ...

Also2, suppose user does a long press down in dpad: once 452274 is solved, many snav action would be done, focus would be jumpping around though many elements in the page, causing user a bad experience and an ugly visual effect.

maybe panning affected by scrollings is a panning bug instead ?(In reply to

Comment 3

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

Other than clicking and holding with my stylus, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to scroll pages for simple reading.

Comment 4

[Christian Sejersen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The dpad isn't meant to directly scroll, since we use it for "spatial
> navigation" (navigating through links/form elements/etc. directionally instead
> of in document order). Bug 452274 covers us not panning when you navigate to
> offscreen elements.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 452274 ***

I think this bug more is a duplicate of 436071. It seems like the intent here is to be able to scroll up/down on pages without triggering snav.

Comment 5

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

I think the desired functionality is to pan on a d-pad long press and snav on a d-pad short press.  Doug, have you looked at that?