On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was working on a bug [1][2] 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. :) > > [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96335 > [2] http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51469
I don't have strong opinions, and would be swayed by a decent rationale, but I lean toward making scrollbars never steal focus. It's weird that you can mousewheel or touch scroll without killing your focus, but using the bar steals it. ~TJ
