[Vimperator] focused item on page load

[Martin Stubenschrott]

Hi Aaron,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:59:20PM -0400, Aaron Bohannon wrote:
> 1) Some web pages with text boxes automatically give the focus to a
> text box when the page loads, instead of leaving vimperator in normal
> mode, e.g. the google home page, wikipedia.org, and the bugzilla
> search page.  I would very much prefer to always be left in normal
> mode when a page finishes loading.  Is there a simple fix for this?

There was a fix for this, but it was backed out, as it caused to many
problems (first it focused firefox on each page load, second if you
wrote into the textfield while the bage was loading would cause
problems, when the textfield then quickly is unfocused). However,
somebody should just fix these problems, then i think it should be
changed again.

> 2) There are some weird interactions with gmail, the simplest of which
> has also to do with focused items (I think).  Before I installed
> vimperator, when I would open gmail, I would have to hit <TAB> at
> least once before my gmail keystrokes would work, which may well be
> some kind of gmail bug or feature (I'm not sure which).  Now with
> vimperator, when I open gmail, many of the vimperator normal-mode
> keystrokes (such a page motion commands) will not work until I go into
> escaped mode with 'I', then hit <TAB>, and then leave escaped mode
> with <ESC>.  Does anyone have any idea what is going on here?  What is
> gmail giving the focus to that is intercepting keystrokes and why is
> this interfering with vimperator's normal mode?

GMail (and proably some other sites) has some focus issues, that was
already reported, but hard to test, since i don't use GMail. However, I
just saw that GMail is giving out IMAP access to some users, so I might
change to it, and have a try to fix it then.

> Also, quickhints with gmail appear buggy to the point of being useless
> for me, but I assume this relates to other quickhints bugs that will
> be fixed in the future.

As you already know (nice you are reading bug reports :)), hints are
broken, and I just commited a completely new way of hints in the FF3
branch yesterday, and will put more effort to make them usable, but the
0.5.x/FF2 branch will remain broken i fear.

--
Martin