777556 - Panning motions over plugin content should send scroll or drag events to the plugin, not scroll the containing page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Plugins, defect)

Description

[Gábor Stefanik]

Currently, attempting to pan/scroll over plugin content simply scrolls the page as if the plugin was not there at all. This is a problem with pure Flash sites where the entire page consists of a single plugin container, and the Flash animation in the container handles scrolling itself.

My proposal is to instead send drag events when the user does panning/dragging movements with one finger, and scroll (i.e. wheel) events with 2 fingers.

Steps to reproduce:
Open the URL in landscape mode (Flash required).

Expected results:
The plugin area can be scrolled.

Actual results:
Plugin reacts to neither panning gestures nor dragging the scroll bar.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This also doesn't work in the stock Android browser.

Afaict, this should be handled by the plugin content itself, not by the browser, since the plugin should be getting these events and handle them, just like it does in desktop.

Comment 2

[Gábor Stefanik]

The stock browser handles dragging the scroll widget just fine. The ability to scroll (with actual mouse wheel events) is a feature request that's not implemented in either browsers.

Also, the stock browser won't attempt to pan the page when dragging/panning inside a plugin area - Firefox does, instead of sending the relevant events to the plugin.

Comment 3

[u597032]

Flash is finally going, Bug 1381916.