50665 - [RFE] want textbox.focus() to not grab focus from other mozilla windows

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41813

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

this bug is split from bug 41813 
(see John Morrison 2000-08-28 18:29 on that bug).

bug 41813: textbox.focus() shouldn't grab focus from other moz windows on Linux
this bug:  textbox.focus() shouldn't grab focus from other moz windows on Win

It sounds like it's agreed that it should work that was for Linux and Mac, but 
there hasn't been much discussion about what should happen on Windows.  IE 5.5 
Win does let textboxes grab focus from other windows, and apparently NS4.x Win 
does too.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Yep. For a non-frontmost window to jump to the top, for no obvious reason (see 
how long it took to work out what was causing bug 41813 in the first place!), is 
just rude.

If we don't fix this, then the purveyors of popup windows have now got a trick to 
keep their popups frontmost: just repeatedly call the textbox.focus() function 
for a minimal textbox in the popup.

Comment 2

[hangas]

Sending to Toolkit/Widgets.  This bug has been lost in space for a while.

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

-> future, as this cannot possibly be done in the current time frame (and
this is the platform convention of existing browsers on windows).

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

Accepting for future

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

It seems silly to me that search sites have to choose between making users 
click in a textbox and annoying Windows users who browse in multiple windows.  
If a webpage wants to steal focus from another browser window, it can use 
window.focus().  I doubt it's common for websites to need to steal focus from 
another window and then immediately let the user type something, but if a site 
actually needs to do this, window.focus() followed by textbox.focus() works 
fine in all Windows browsers.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

This should apply to sidebars (and frames) as well.  There's currently no way 
for a sidebar tab to set focus to a textbox onload without stealing focus each 
time a new browser window is opened, afaict.

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

->saari for consideration.

Comment 8

[saari (gone)]

The feedback on this has been clear, no one likes the current implementation.
Target Mozilla 0.9

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

*** Bug 64685 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Peter Trudelle]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28467 ***

Comment 11

[John Morrison]

verified. (consolidating this bug).

Comment 12

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Reopening based on Trudelle's 2001-04-06 comment in bug 28467.

Comment 13

[Peter Trudelle]

->hyatt

Comment 14

[David Hyatt]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41813 ***

Comment 15

[Chad Austin]

invalids, wontfixes, dups, worksformes