478482 - Editing text in Bespin with Chrome, hittin Backspace does browser-back, text is lost

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Dror Harari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.162.0 Safari/530.0
Build Identifier: https://bespin.mozilla.com/dashboard.html

It appears as if Bespin does not handle the Backspace key properly when editing text. Instead of simply deleting the text, it behaves as if I pressed the backspace key. Once that happens, my editing is lost - this is very annoying.

In the list of goals you (Bespin gods) had for the project, you neglected to mention the #1 - never loose changes. Never! If I have to tell you how agonizing it is to type your code again, you're not programmers. Not to worry - this was just a test - nothing lost. 

A short screencast is attached.

Chrome version: 2.0.162.0

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Chrome (I use development channel version 2.0.162.0 - may happen elsewhere)
2. Open text
3. Do some typing
4. Press Backspace.
5. The browser goes to the previous page
6. If you press next, you see that your work is gone.

Actual Results:  
Browser goes to previous page

Expected Results:  
The last character before the caret should be deleted.

Comment 1

[Dror Harari]

Attachment: Screencast of the backspace issue

I did not show it in the screencast but pressing Next (>) returned to the editor but with my edits gone.

Comment 2

[Denya]

Confirm.
Chrome version: 2.0.163.0 (9601)

Very annoing.

Comment 3

[Dion Almaer]

Hi guys,

It isn't doing this for me. Would you mind going to http://unixpapa.com/js/testkey.html and hitting the backspace key and sending the output?

Cheers,

Dion

Comment 4

[Denya]

Your browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.163.0 Safari/530.0

keydown   keyCode=8         which=8         charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0008 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keyup     keyCode=8         which=8         charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0008 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false

Comment 5

[Dror Harari]

Typing <a> <b> <c> <d> <backspace> gives:

          keyIdentifier=U+0042 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keydown   keyCode=67 (C)    which=67 (C)    charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0043 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keypress  keyCode=99 (c)    which=99 (c)    charCode=99 (c)   
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keyup     keyCode=67 (C)    which=67 (C)    charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0043 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keydown   keyCode=68 (D)    which=68 (D)    charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0044 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keypress  keyCode=100 (d)   which=100 (d)   charCode=100 (d)  
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keyup     keyCode=68 (D)    which=68 (D)    charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0044 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keydown   keyCode=8         which=8         charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0008 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false
keyup     keyCode=8         which=8         charCode=0        
          keyIdentifier=U+0008 keyLocation=0
          shiftKey=false ctrlKey=false altKey=false metaKey=false

Comment 6

[Dion Almaer]

Thanks guys. We just pushed a new version of the code that tries to do something about this. Can you shift-reload and see if it fixes anything for you?

Comment 7

[Aleksandr Motsjonov]

Platworm: Windows XP SP3
Chrome Version: 2.0.166.1
Bespin Revision: 649:4bd32f986337

Cant reproduce. There is no such bug for me for now.

Comment 8

[Dion Almaer]

Great. Yeah, we patched this.

Comment 9

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: General.

This bug likely still needs to be triaged and categorized.