I don't think I have the skills to be able to do that myself, but I'd
certainly be willing to help/assist in whatever way I can.

On 1 February 2012 22:35, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote:

> The minimal test case that I envision would be a XULRunner app that puts
> up a window that contains two tabscrollboxes.  The first one would be the
> control group, that is, an ordinary tabscrollbox with tabs enough to
> overflow the window.  The second one would be the experimental group, an
> identical tabscrollbox, but with the "ordinal" attribute set on the tabs
> such that their display order was altered.  The experimenter should
> observe that the mouse scrollwheel works on the first group, and fails on
> the second.
>
> --John
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:41:27PM -0600, Benjamin Slade wrote:
>    Ok, what is involved in attempting (a)?
>
>    -----
>    Ok, here is my tree of possibilities:
>
>    Problem: use of a mouse scrollwheel to scroll a tabscrollbox fails when
>    the XUL 'ordinal' attribute has been used to change the display order of
>    the tabs.
>
>    * a
>
>    Someone with a scrollwheel write a minimal test case XULRunner app and
>    send it to mozilla.
>
>    * b
>
>    Rewrite tab-bar and new-tabs to work around the problem (ugly!)
>
>    Involves giving up use of the XUL attribute "ordinal", and going back to
>    more primitive DOM methods of moving things around.  nasty idea imo.
>
>    * c
>
>    Tell affected users that they cannot make use of buffer-moving.
>
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