- From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:08:20 -0700
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org> wrote: > >> Does anyone from Mozilla know why textarea scrollbars are special-cased in >> Gecko? Would be good to know if there is a web compatibility requirement >> here. >> > > I don't know of one off the top of my head. I can't see how it could be a > compatibility requirement. > > I think what's happening here in Gecko is that a click on a focusable > element moves focus, and a click on an element's scrollbars counts as a > click on the element. So clicking on the scrollbar of a <textarea> or > contenteditable <div> (or even a <button> containing content with a > scrollbar, if you're mad) moves focus to that element. I think this is > quite reasonable actually. > > Example: http://people.mozilla.org/~roc/scrollbar-focus.html > I see. Thanks for the clarification. I don't feel strongly about this. Either direction seems fine. Although, it doesn't violate every native platform's scrollbar convention.
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