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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Behavior of focused links in KHTML
From:       John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-10 16:14:57
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On Wednesday 10 April 2002 4:08, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Die, 09 Apr 2002, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > It seems that the behavior of focused links in KHTML has changed sometime
> > in the last week or so: upon clicking a link, and then returning to the
> > previous page, the link is focused and somehow steals key events, i.e.
> > the spacebar no longer scrolls the page. This is annoying; can someone
> > fix it?
>
> Thats the intended behaviour (the link receives focus upon activation, so
> the focus is restored). I'm not sure what the solution is here..

What is the use of focusing the link? If it is only that it can be then be 
opened by pressing enter, it should capture only the enter key. All other 
keystrokes should be passed to the enclosing view.

> when you select a link via keyboard, it will receive the focus, if you
> press enter and then go back, the link will again have focus.

-John
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