[imp] Horizontal/Vertical layout focus

[John H. Bennett III]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:

> Quoting John H. Bennett III <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> Another gripe I keep getting is the inability of the webmail client  
>> to maintain focus while in the preview window.  People don't want  
>> to have to either double-click a message, or when in the preview  
>> window, click on the scroll bar to scroll through a message, they  
>> would rather be able to click on the layout view, and once in that  
>> view, be able to use the mouse or keyboard keys to scroll through  
>> their message.  Why?  Yeah, because that's what outlook can do.
>>
>> I'm up for any words or reasons I can tell my users as to why this  
>> isn't possible with horde.
>
> Because browser UI elements != OS UI elements.
>
> We make use of IFRAMEs (for HTML messages) to segregate potentially  
> dangerous external data (message content) from the rest of the page.  
>  IFRAMEs are handled differently by each browser.  An IFRAME, by  
> default, has no connection/contact to the parent page.  So if you do  
> something in the IFRAME, this has NO EFFECT on the rest of the page.
>
> Essentially, you can think of the message preview as a completely  
> separate application than IMP.  We *try* to capture  
> clicks/keypresses inside of the IFRAME, but this is not always  
> possible (e.g. browser issues; for security reasons we may not be  
> able to precisely simulate that click in the parent page).
>
> michael
>
> ___________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]
>

Hi Michael,

Yes, OK, thank you for explaining, but when using Outlook Web Access,  
you don't have this issue, no matter if you are using a MAC, or  
Windows PC.  Once you change the focus to the preview pane, you are  
able to scroll with the mouse, or by using the keyboard keys. Is this  
still a matter of UI elements != OS UI elements, or is MS using some  
other method than what horde uses or can use?

Thanks again,

John