On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:03:20AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
> Scroll down (C-n) doesn't work on the new Gizmodo site (http://gizmodo.com).
> 
> The main content on the left scrolls down but the frame/float box (I'm not 
> actually sure how they implement this) on the right doesn't. 
> 
> However, if you move the mouse over the box on the right, you can scroll with 
> the mouse.
> 
> Is there a way to select the box with the keyboard and scroll down?
> 
> --Thanks!


Try the ; (focus) key.  If it's a frame or iframe, this will let you focus
it.

Try the sequence 'n ;' and select a link inside the node.  If you focus
something inside of a scrollable div, the scroll commands will work on the
div.

Try isearch, and search for some text inside of the scrollable div.  After
you end your search, scroll commands will affect the location where the
search ended.

I haven't looked at the site in question, but this kind of problem affects
Conkeror with websites that use 'scrollable divs' as a way to emulate
frames.  The problem is that there is no way that I know of to
programatically find scrollable divs without iterating through every dom
node on the page and checking their style rules.  This is an area where
web standards are really at odds with the idea of using the keyboard as a
primary input device.

-- 
John Foerch
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