[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 15816] Cannot select multiple non-adjacent items in a multiple select control with the keyboard only

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15816





--- Comment #12 from chris fleizach <cfleizach at apple.com>  2010-11-04 10:33:35 PST ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> I might be wrong, but while working on bug 25679 I found out that items inside a selection listbox are not focusable, but just selectable so that makes impossible to navigate through the list of items with the keyboard without losing a previous selection unless you're using the Shift modifier, but that's only valid for adjacent items...
> 

The listbox itself is focusable, the items inside the list are selectable. you don't want to press tab to move through every item in a list, which is why the list items are not focusable. This is standard across OSs.

> I don't have a strong opinion here (still have to look more and more code to be 100% sure about this), but I feel like allowing items to be focusable might be a requirement to fix this bug (and help with bug 25679 as well), because that way you could do something like this:

MacOS does not have a standard way to do non-contiguous selection of items in a list using a keyboard only (I'm sure it's a long-standing request however). For this to be made to work on the Mac, that would have to be resolved. If other platforms have a standard way to do this kind of selection, then it should be straightforward to implement that behavior

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