On 06/04/2011 12:57 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
According to a comment of Hixie in [1], this case has been handled by
the specs in 2004 but it doesn't seem to be any more and UA's have a
very different behaviour here:
- Firefox: focus and activate the labelled element ;
- Webkit: focus the form control and activate the labelled element ;
- Presto and IE9 RC: focus the form control (doesn't activate the
labelled element).
I think Webkit's behaviour makes the more sense here and it would be
nice to have it specified.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213519
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595270
Oops, not sure why the text was lost in the WF2 merge.
I've added equivalent text back. It describes the Opera/IE behaviour;
could you elaborate on why the WebKit behaviour is better?
Webkit behavior makes more sense because it tries to combine expected
behavior for clicking inside a label and for clicking on an interactive
element. It sounds much more natural.
Opera/IE behavior is similar to ignoring the fact that the interactive
element is inside a label. Basically, Opera and IE are assuming that the
author didn't want to write what he/she wrote. I do not think that is a
sane behavior when they are good and real use cases for it.
Authors can emulate the WebKit behaviour if they really want it by just
calling .click() on the element they want to have activated when the
target is focused.
Sure. Like the the Firefox one ;)
--
Mounir
