- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:43:39 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > > I was working on a bug recently where authors had complained about > WebKit's behavior where clicking a scrollbar unfocuses the > activeElement. What's particularly quirky is that the window scrollbar > never moves focus in any browser I tried, but overflow scrollbars inside > the page *do* move focus in WebKit, IE and Opera but not in Gecko. > > This behavior seems unfortunate because it means scrolling a form inside > an overflow div moves focus from where you were typing and it's also > really weird that window scrollbars are special. > > What's the correct behavior here? It would be best if all the browsers > could be consistent, but I'm not sure the existing common behavior is > best. :) >From the spec's point of view, I think this is just something where you're supposed to try to match the host platform conventions. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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