Re: Applet steals focus...

From: Andrew Thompson (SeeMySites_at_www.invalid)
Date: 09/02/04


Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 04:11:52 GMT


> Some time ago I noticed an irritating quirk in
> applets, they tend to 'steal the focus' of a web
> page and prevent scrolling using the keyboard.

Some time after that, I mentioned it
and followed it up in the thread of
this title.. That was January.

I may finally have found a fix!
<http://www.physci.org/test/focus/index6.jsp> *

You can test to see whether your browser/OS/VM
combination is susceptible, here..
<http://www.physci.org/test/focus/>

* If the applet takes longer than 5
second to load, this simple fix will not
be effective.

If that happens, please refresh the page.
As soon as I can confirm this works in
principle, I will work it into a more
robust form with the help of the
Javascript folks.. ;-)

Hoping for some positive results.

-- 
Andrew Thompson
http://www.PhySci.org/ Open-source software suite
http://www.PhySci.org/codes/ Web & IT Help
http://www.1point1C.org/ Science & Technology


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