92450 - Can't use keyboard or mouse wheel to scroll newly appleevent-opened page

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Waldemar Horwat]

The pageup/down keys and the mouse wheel don't scroll a new window that's opened
by clicking a link from another Macintosh application.  You must click in the
newly created topmost window first to set the focus to the content.  To reproduce:

Go to another Macintosh application and click on a link that will send an event
to Netscape 6 and open a new topmost window displaying a web page.  If the
window has a scroll bar, the PageUp and PageDown keys will not scroll the page.
 The mouse wheel won't work either until you click in the window.

Comment 1

[saari (gone)]

need to make sure this still happens

Comment 2

[Waldemar Horwat]

Yes, this bug still occurs using today's trunk build.  The focus is set to the
location bar instead of the window content, preventing one from scrolling the
window using the keyboard or a mouse wheel.

Comment 3

[Andy Lyttle]

Yep, I've had this problem too.  I usually use arrow keys to scroll up/down, but
the page doesn't have focus so nothing happens.

Comment 4

[Lori Kaplan]

Seems like this is a nice to fix issue since there is a workaround (clicking in
the window). Don't know the relative schedule of other Mac usability-type work
so it's hard for me to evaluate the priority of this against all other nominated
bugs in this space. Chris-do you have a sense for that?

Comment 5

[Waldemar Horwat]

*** Bug 70027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

nsbeta1- per ADT/Embed triage. 

Comment 7

[Tony Tovar]

There's a similar problem on WinNT, using 1.0.RC1 (and previous versions).

My specific testcase is to open a link from Outlook (any email/app using the
OS's http: calls would probably do it, too).  The newly opening window has URL
focus instead of document focus.

Should a separate Windows-specific bug be opened? Or, can this bug be expanded
to OS="ALL"?

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 63462?

Comment 9

[Tony Tovar]

FYI - my WinNT testcase is now OK, using build 2002-04-29 (pre-1.0 branch)

Comment 10

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 11

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

I can't reproduce this bug using a recent build in MacOS X.
Due to the fact that we don't work on MacOS Classic anymore since Moz1.3.1, I
mark this bug "WFM".