Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Compiled From Sources OS: Linux When using the scrollwheel on a website, and the mousepointer hits a flash banner, the banner steals the scrolling events. You can't scroll the page anymore unless you move the mousepointer away from the banner. Last time I looked they had such a banner on http://www.partyblick.de/ I didn't know if I should reopen Bug 45180 or file a new one. Hope I did the right thing. :)
Subject: Re: New: flash banners block mouse wheel page scrolling On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:42, Dik Takken wrote: > When using the scrollwheel on a website, and the mousepointer hits a flash > banner, the banner steals the scrolling events. You can't scroll the page > anymore unless you move the mousepointer away from the banner. > > Last time I looked they had such a banner on > > http://www.partyblick.de/ > > I didn't know if I should reopen Bug 45180 or file a new one. Hope I did > the right thing. :) _______________________________________________ Don't think we have any choice about this. Perhaps the best that can be done is to grab the mouse events with XEmbed and feed them up to the parent part? Then we disable scroll wheel for plugins that use it though... I think this is WONTFIX, IMHO.
I agree, one of the best feature I love about KDE, is the scroll follow mouse. flash anim are like any widget or html control... WONTFIX, IMHO
Is there no way to detect that a plugin is flash? I have not seen a flash object processing scroll events yet, so these events could just be fed to the parent widget, but only for flash objects. One more thing: What if the whole site is flash and it does not fit in the window? In that case, you currently can't scroll down the page unless you use the scrollbar, right?
yeah,... its annoying,... flash can't hardly have subitems scrollable... I saw one before but.... konq should scroll the page on flash animation.
same in firefox.... just for you to know, wheel-scrolling block on a flash picture in firefox as well.
Can't we steal the wheel events in an event filter before XEmbed gets them. Or does XEmbed ignore event filters? Btw, confirming. The current behaviour is hellishly annoying, given that most flashs are only banner ads. Just like Dik, I have yet to see a flash that makes use of the wheel.
I see it as a wish though. If someone feels like...
Under Windows both IE and Mozilla Firefox can scroll over flash both with mouse and keyboard and that is how it should be. I believe Konqueror programmers can handle this too. The current misbehaviour should IMO be considered as a bug. Regards Krystof
I agree, this should be fixed. Try going to www.vg.no and scrolling down that page with the mousewheel. Very annoying. While I agree that its an excellent idea that the scroll follows the mouse in widgets, this should not be the case for flash animations.
I'd like to vote for this annoyance as well - latest FireFox allows mousewheel scrolling even when the page is over a flash ad. This problem extends to other areas as well. For example, page scrolling is always blocked if the mouse is over a textbox or listbox that has the focus. I think a more intelligent behaviour would be to only block page scrolling and if the contents of the textbox or listbox are scrollable (ie. there are more lines of text than visible rows in a textbox or more items than visible in a listbox)
This bug has my vote, too.
I agree... this is rather annoying. Any progress / decisions? It's been a while... :-)
This behaviour can be confirmed in 4.5.4, it's still not fixed.
It‘s also still in 4.6 ;) But I think this is more a bug of Flash than KDE itself, isn‘t it? Dunno. Flash should be banned. HTML 5 rocks :)
Flash and Netscape plugins are no longer supported.