68965 - No keyboard navigation in textfields possible

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 71014

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Späth]

I looked for a dupe but didn't find anyone, so here we go:

For quite some time (or never?) is the keyboard navigation in textfields in the
embedded builds broken. I cannot move to the left/right/up/down with the arrow
keys. Placing the cursor with the mouse works however. This affects the nightly
Winembedded build as well as our embedded browser. 
Mmmh, there got to be a bug for this already...

Comment 1

[Adam Lock]

I think this is because winEmbed & mfcEmbed don't use XUL so no there are 
defined keyboard accelerators.

If you want to cursor keys to work you have to do something like the gtk widget 
does where it loads some XUL as the topmost content loads any URLs into the 
primary content docshell inside that. This ensures accelerators work properly.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Späth]

A comment from binaryC, our main coder in K-Meleon:
Arrow keys work in text boxes until you go to a site with a <textarea> I 
think this may be a bug.  To duplicate it, go to slashdot.org and play with 
the "log in" text boxes, then go to the kmeleon forums, then back to 
slashdot.  I haven't tested to see if this happens in other embeded 
browsers, but I would assume it does.

Comment 3

[Chak Nanga]

Sebastian : Do you think http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71014 is a 
dupe of this one?

Comment 4

[Sebastian Späth]

Yup, that looks definitely like a dupe. However this issue has been longer 
around than the current problem in the mozilla build which you describe.

Comment 5

[Sam Rowe]

Is there a bug like this for the Linux builds?

I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010321
and can't use cursor-keys in text fields.

I looked and couldn't find anything.

Comment 6

[Judson Valeski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71014 ***

Comment 7

[Michael Dunn]

Correction: Changing QA contact for the Embed API bugs to David Epstein.

Comment 8

[David Epstein]

dup of 71014