On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Ojan Vafai <o...@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 Rob -- Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave — just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” [Matthew 20:25-28]
