[imp] Horizontal/Vertical layout focus

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting John H. Bennett III <bennettj at thebennetthome.com>:

> 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

And I'm also confused because you can scroll with the mouse and the  
keyboard keys using IMP.  Have been able to forever.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]