[Vimperator] Javascript interference

Ian Taylor itaylor at uark.edu
Wed Sep 12 07:55:02 PDT 2007


Excerpts from Martin Stubenschrott's message of Wed Aug 22 13:05:50 -0500 2007:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:51:23PM -0400, Ian Taylor wrote:
> > When I go to pages like finance.google.com that have fields with
> > autocompletion via javascript, Esc doesn't seem to switch to vimperator
> > command mode. 
> > 
> > Is there some setting/feature I don't know about? If not, what are the
> > chances of that being fixed in the future?
> 
> This problem is known and i really hope that not more sites start to do
> things like this.
> 
> We haven't found a solution yet, although somebody said we should try
> catching "keydown" instead of "keypress".
> 
> Also sites like msn.com have these problems, there even is a bug for
> this.
> 

Any developments on this? I really find that it's the most annoying
thing I face day-to-day when using vimperator. It seems like more and
more sites are jumping to input fields on keypress.

-- 
Ian Taylor, Technical Assistant
Computer Science Computer Engineering
http://www.csce.uark.edu itaylor at uark.edu
University of Arkansas



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