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.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Elliott Sprehn <espr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Ojan Vafai <o...@chromium.org> wrote: > > ... > > > > This doesn't have to be specced, but it also doesn't really seems to be a > > platform convention issue. The platforms that have scrollbars are all the > > same (i.e. clicking on the scrollbar never moves focus) and no browser > > fuller matches platform that convention. Gecko's behavior is most > consistent > > with that, except Gecko *does* move focus if you click on a textarea > > scrollbar. It seems especially bad that you get a different behavior if > you > > click on the scrollbar of the window vs. the scrollbar of an > overflow:auto > > element that fills the window > > So what's the consensus here? Should WebKit have Gecko's behavior? > Should we unify the world and make scrollbars never move focus even on > <textarea>? :) > > - E >