[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 22261] Clicking on a non-text input element does not give it focus

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261





--- Comment #46 from Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org>  2012-10-04 11:47:58 PST ---
(In reply to comment #45)
> (In reply to comment #44)
> > Related issue: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142188
> > 
> > Maybe we need to tie this due to editing behavior. I'm pretty certain we want it be focusable on all non-Mac platforms.
> 
> Perhaps it should depend on tab-focus policy. My feeling is that this behavior is appropriate if and only if buttons are tab-focusable. In Safari on Mac (and probably other Mac browsers) they are not by default, but can be set to be in the tab cycle (via both System Preferences and Safari Preferences).

So, to be clear, you're disagreeing with Darin's preference to avoid Mac vs Windows differences? I'm OK with making this a Setting. I'd rather do that than an editing behavior since Chrome will want to do this on Mac as well.

FWIW, here's another bug report we've received about how this causes web developers difficulties:
"I have a div which is set to -webkit-user-modify: read-write. When i place my cursor in the div, it gets focus and indeed accepts input. When I tap outside of the div, I get a blur event on the div, and lose focus. So far so good and as expected.

If I however tap on a button which is outside of the div, then I do get a blur event, yet my cursor remains on screen and indeed continues to accept input. Even though the div now no longer has focus (it even loses the blue focus border).  I've attached a quick demo html to this email.

My code had assumed that when my content editable div loses focus (receives a blur), then I stop listening for DOM Mutations. Clearly, if it still can receive input even when it hasn't got focus that means my code is broken. Is this is a bug, or should I somehow use something else than the blur event to determine when my div will stop accepting input ?"

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