Closed Bug 421912 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

European Keyboards fail to register Shift and Alt-Gr

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 272847

People

(Reporter: timothy.soehnlin, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3 In the attached website, you will see two flash objects, one with the attribute wmode=transparent and one without. The one with wmode=transparent fails to handle keycodes properly for extended keyboard sets (tested with French-France, French-Canadian, UK-England keyboards). This bug existed in Firefox2 and has been fixed partially (now in Firefox3 the key codes are mapped to the proper locale when passing event to a flash object). The bug that is presenting itself is that the Shift key and Alt Gr keys are not being propagated to the flash object when it's wmode=transparent (without this it is fine). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a European keyboard 2. Go to attached website 3. Try to type in a key requiring the use of the Shift or Alt Gr key in the box that uses wmode=transparent. Actual Results: The key combination that is pressed ignores the modifiers of Shift and Alt-Gr resulting in the inability to type specific key combinations. Expected Results: Type the proper character corresponding to the key combination.
On another note, the shift key seems to be registered, but when pressing the shift key the character set seems to revert to US Ascii.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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