Bug 19488

Summary:	Cannot scroll webpage with arrow keys if mouse is in the flash
Product:	swfdec	Reporter:	Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne>
Component:	plugin	Assignee:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:	swfdec ml <swfdec>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jon Dufresne 2009-01-09 14:17:56 UTC

This is using swfdec 0.8.4 and epiphany 2.24.1 with gecko-1.9 all from Fedora 10 repositories. This bug correlates with flash objects so I believe it is a bug with swfdec as opposed to the other modules. If you believe this is either an epiphany or gecko bug I would be happy to file this bug in the correct place.

I can not scroll a web page vertically using the arrow keys when the mouse pointer is inside a flash object.

Steps to repeat:
* Go to a youtube video page.
* Click anywhere in the web page beside the flash object and scroll vertically with arrow keys to make sure the web page has focus.
* Place mouse pointer inside the flash and rest the mouse.
* Try to scroll the web page vertically with the arrow keys, notice that you can not.

Comment 1 Benjamin Otte 2009-01-09 15:04:46 UTC

This is definitely partially Swfdec's fault. But I think it's a Mozilla problem, too. At least the last time I asked about it, I was told that Mozilla doesn't handle events that plugins don't handle, so I never bothered implementing it.

I wonder if it works with Adobe's plugin (even on Windows).

Comment 2 Jon Dufresne 2009-01-09 15:14:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I was told that Mozilla
> doesn't handle events that plugins don't handle, so I never bothered
> implementing it.

Is it be possible to forward the unhandled events to Mozilla?

Comment 3 Benjamin Otte 2009-01-09 15:19:42 UTC

Yeah, you can return FALSE if you didn't handle an event.
The current code (both inside Swfdec and Swfdec-mozilla) doesn't do that yet, but in theory, it could, if Adobe's player does the same thing.

Comment 4 Jon Dufresne 2009-01-09 18:14:53 UTC

If you give me a little hint as to where to look at this, I'd be interested in trying to write a patch. This bug affects me quite a bit due to the layout of some websites.

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