Are you sure the button is in 'front' in the z-order?  Perhaps changing 
this will help.

Also, boiling this down to a simple testcase that's pure DHTML will 
help.  Is there a testcase checked in?

-Max

Henry Minsky wrote:
> 
> While working on bug http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-2357, I 
> have come to what seems like an impasse in different
> behavior of mouse event propagation in Firefox (and swf) and Internet 
> Explorer 6 (windows).
> 
> The issue is that in Firefox and SWF, if you have a view which is 
> obscuring another view, and you click on it, as
> long as the clicked view does not have a "onclick" handler, the click is 
> passed to the view behind it, regardless of the
> containment hierarchy. The runtime looks only at the geometric placement 
> of the objects.
> 
> In IE however, events only "bubble" up the document element containment 
> hierarchy. So a view which is geometrically behind another view, but is 
> not in the the containing view chain, will never see that mouse clicks, 
> regardless of whether the front view has a handler set or not.
> 
> I don't know an easy workaround for this at the event level. As far as 
> application design, it seems like most apps could be designed to work 
> around
> this by not relying on events being passed through views which are in 
> disjoint containment hierarchies, I guess.
> 
> Anyone know a way to make IE act like Firefox in this behavior??
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
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