[maemo-developers] Using the scrollbar on the N810

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2008/2/19, josh.soref at nokia.com <josh.soref at nokia.com>:
[snip observations that the web widget is catching mouse events
outside the thumb but inside the scrollbar]
> Unfortunately, this isn't really how things work. Either a widget asks
>  to capture input, in which case it can get events outside its
>  boundaries, or it doesn't.
>
>  If a widget does ask to capture events outside its boundaries, it then
>  needs to have some idea about what to do with them.
>
>  And that's hard (and each group will implement it differently, but
>  poorly)....

I don't understand this, why would the browser widget be interested in
events that happen on the scrollbar widget? That's what happens
anyway, I start a drag over the scrollbar outside the thumb and the
page is panned as if I dragged on the page.

Unless of course (and I guess this is the case) it's not really two
widgets but one widget doing funny things. I don't see this with any
other application, the scrollbar will "jump" to the direction of the
stylus as expected if I start a drag outside the thumb.

So I suppose this particular bug can and should be fixed in the
browser UI / browser engine...

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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