Yes this has been discussed before.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=717361 and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701741 for context. This
mailing list is a better place for discussion than the bugs.

Kevin

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Richard Z <r...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> noticed that Fennec behaves very differently than Chrome
> when webpages do explicitly set focus to input fields by
> javascript.
> Fennec will focus that field and popup the keyboard whereas
> Chrome seems to completely ignore the .focus() call.
>
> From my perspective the behaviour of Chrome seems better - the
> popup keyboard can be highly irritating when unexpected while
> tapping an input field which I want to edit is very easy.
>
> Even wrote a trivial addon which deals with one site where our
> behavior is very annoying
>  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pubmedunfocus/
>
> Has that been discussed before?
>
> Richard
>
> --
> Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
>
> _______________________________________________
> mobile-firefox-dev mailing list
> mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org
> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
_______________________________________________
mobile-firefox-dev mailing list
mobile-firefox-dev@mozilla.org
https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev

Reply via email to