Do you have a small test case?

On 2006-07-05, at 23:47 EDT, Andrew Chandler wrote:

> Thanks - the thing is its firefox not IE doing this - plus it  
> happens with
> the default html wrapper spit out by the laslo proxy - also the  
> brackets for
> focus go to the button without the click - its just that they mean  
> nothing
> until you click anywhere on the flash movie (one click only)  -  
> after that
> click hitting the enter key causes the button that was bracketed  
> previously
> to be depress.   Overall its quite depressing (sorry about the puns  
> and
> movie references - its late and I hate unsolvable problems).
>
> I just find it weird that I'm the only one this happens to  -  
> especially
> since I can reproduce it on multiple machines running flash 8 & 9  
> at work.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P T Withington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:14 PM
> To: Andrew Chandler
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Laszlo-user] Focus not working in firefox - I think  
> maybe I
> figured it out
>
> The 'click to open' thing that IE does for EOLAS is very distinct.
> You get a dialogue that says some things on the page won't work  
> until you
> click OK.  (I think it even suggests you write your congressperson  
> telling
> them that EOLAS are stinkers.  :P) This is quite different from  
> what you are
> experiencing of just having to click on the swf object to 'unstick'  
> the
> focus brackets.
>
> If you are writing your own HTML page to embed the swf into, I
> suggest that you validate your HTML (see http://validator.w3.org/).
> If your HTML is not valid, you will put IE into 'quirks mode' and  
> all bets
> are off.  See also http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
> url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp and read about the
> DOCTYPE switch, which also controls whether or not IE runs in  
> quirks mode.
> Quirks mode is evil.  It makes boatloads of ancient broken content  
> that
> people developed only on IE work, but manages to break most new  
> content that
> anyone is writing to the w3c standards...
>
> On 2006-07-05, at 21:23 EDT, Andrew Chandler wrote:
>
>> Yeh - testing since I wrote that pretty much confirms what you said.
>> However the symptom is exactly as described for IE.   By that I
>> mean you
>> have click ONCE ANYWHERE on the flash object laszlo creates and boom
>> the button that has focus really does get its focus - by this I mean
>> prior to anything else our code does succesffuly call the LzFocus
>> mechanism and you see the little bracktes move over to surround the
>> button we want to be
>> default.    Its just that page ignores any keypress until you take
>> and click
>> on the flash object (clicking the surrounding html page does not  
>> help)
>>
>>
>> You know its not an end of the world issue but its incredibly
>> frustrating because I know it SHOULD work.
>>
>>
>> I'll keep plugging away at it....at this point I think its probably
>> not a laszlo issue per-se I think it's a plugin or flash issue but  
>> I'm
>> going to try to make a simple flash movie with one button and
>> reproduce it without laszlo at all.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: P T Withington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:21 PM
>> To: Andrew Chandler
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Laszlo-user] Focus not working in firefox - I think
>> maybe I figured it out
>>
>> embed.js and flashobject.js are basically the same, they both use
>> Javascript to create the object tag dynamically rather than
>> statically, which MS believes skirts the EOLAS patent.  Either should
>> work equally well.
>> Flashobject.js has the advantage of being used by a much larger
>> community so perhaps has worked around some niggling details, but I
>> would be very surprised if that affected your focus issue.
>>
>> EOLAS has not sued anyone other than MS, to my knowledge, so no other
>> browser vendor has done anything about their patent.
>>
>> On 2006-07-05, at 17:55 EDT, Andrew Chandler wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This snippet talks about how IE is going to change - I found this
>>> following links regarding the benefits of flashobject.js versus
>>> embed.js.
>>> I think
>>> its possible this may be whats going on with firefox as well.
>>> (which is
>>> where I'm seeing it) - I'm in the process of changing some test  
>>> pages
>>> and will let you know how it works.
>>>
>>> http://blog.deconcept.com/2005/12/15/internet-explorer-eolas-
>>> changes-and-the
>>> -flash-plugin/
>>>
>>> "When using an applet, object, or embed tag to insert a plugin into
>>> an HTML document, that plugin will not allow user interaction until
>>> the user clicks on it. Microsoft calls this process "
>>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/
>>> dhtml/ov
>>> erview/activating_activex.asp> Activating an ActiveX Control's
>>> Interface."
>>>
>>> In the case of the Flash plugin, it means that your Flash movies  
>>> will
>>> not
>>> work until a user 'activates' it first by clicking on it        "
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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