[thelist] [javascript] Mozilla doesn't trigger event

Peter-Paul Koch pp.koch at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 14:29:45 CST 2005


> > > Mozilla doesn't seem to trigger the onscroll event when the
> > scrollbar on a
> > > div (with overflow scrolling enabled) is clicked to page
> > forward.  IE does.
> >
> > What do you mean by "clicked to page forward"?
> 
> I mean that I click to the left or right of the slider bar (this is
> horizontally scrolling) and the area scrolls a page full left or right.

Hm, interesting. Moz 1.7.5 does fire the event when I do that. Any
click on the slider/scrollbar area fires the event. Which version do
you use?
 
> > Mozilla has bad support for the scroll event on windows: it doesn't
> > fire when the user uses the mouse wheel or arrow keys to scroll the
> > page.
> 
> Too bad, but it's the reality, I guess.  Maybe they'll fix it soon :-)  I
> mean, it's inconveniencing ME, which means that "they" should escalate the
> issue immediately and create an emergency patch.  :-)  j/k

That's the spirit! I've got an extremely long list of browser bugs
"they" should fix by yesterday, or I'll....I'll....I'll do something
truly terrifying, like telling them where to stick it!

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