13941 – SPACE key scrolling when no element is focused, is targetet at <html> - and not at <body>

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Bug 13941 - SPACE key scrolling when no element is focused, is targetet at <html> - and not at <body>

Summary: SPACE key scrolling when no element is focused, is targetet at <html> - and n...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	HTML WG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC All

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact:	HTML WG Bugzilla archive list

URL:	http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/editing#...
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Reported:	2011-08-28 22:02 UTC by Leif Halvard Silli
Modified:	2011-10-24 18:07 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Leif Halvard Silli 2011-08-28 22:02:56 UTC

The following definition is either incorrect or impresice:

]]
  when no element is focused, key events received by
  the document must be targeted at the body element.
]]

If the above statement was true, then for the following demo-document, to press the SPACE key would start to scroll the <body> element - however as a matter of fact, nothing happens:

data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<!DOCTYPE html><html tabindex="-1"><style>html{height:100px;overflow:scroll;border:inset red 1em;width:95%;margin:auto;text-align:center;}body{height:100px;overflow:scroll;margin:0;border:inset orange 1em;}html:before {content:"<html>";line-height:1;padding:0;font-size:200px;}body:before {content:"<body>";line-height:1;padding:0;font-size:200px;}</style><body tabindex="1

The correct thing to say should EITHER be that when no element is focused, then key  events are directed at <html>, OR the spect should ad an exception for scrolling events.

Comment 1 Leif Halvard Silli 2011-08-28 22:08:21 UTC

A better dataURI, for trying the test document:

data:text/html;charset=utf-8;base64,PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw+DQo8aHRtbC
B0YWJpbmRleD0iLTEiPg0KIDxzdHlsZT4NCiAgIGh0bWx7aGVpZ2h0OjEwMHB4O292
ZXJmbG93OnNjcm9sbDtib3JkZXI6aW5zZXQgcmVkIDFlbTt3aWR0aDo5NSU7bWFyZ2
luOmF1dG87dGV4dC1hbGlnbjpjZW50ZXI7fQ0KICAgYm9keXtoZWlnaHQ6MTAwcHg7
b3ZlcmZsb3c6c2Nyb2xsO21hcmdpbjowO2JvcmRlcjppbnNldCBvcmFuZ2UgMWVtO3
0NCiAgIGh0bWw6YmVmb3JlIHtjb250ZW50OiI8aHRtbD4iO2xpbmUtaGVpZ2h0OjE7
cGFkZGluZzowO2ZvbnQtc2l6ZToyMDBweDt9DQogICBib2R5OmJlZm9yZSB7Y29udG
VudDoiPGJvZHk+IjtsaW5lLWhlaWdodDoxO3BhZGRpbmc6MDtmb250LXNpemU6MjAw
cHg7fQ0KPC9zdHlsZT4NCjxib2R5IHRhYmluZGV4PSIxIj4=

Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-24 18:07:30 UTC

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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: As far as I can tell from this test:

   http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/1226

...the spec is correct. The document does scroll, but that just seems to be the UA's behaviour for when a space bar is hit when no element has focus; the events are in fact targetted at the body element.