--- Forwarded Message from Trip Kirkpatrick <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:31:28 -0500
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: Trip Kirkpatrick <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Firefox 1.5 Bug


 >Date: Sun,  4 Dec 2005 08:40:53 -0500
> >From: "Michael Shaughnessy" <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Firefox 1.5 Bug
>
>Hello,
>
>The new version of Firefox (1.5) has a major bug that affects those of us who
>type 'special' characters with ALT codes.
>
>If you try to type the character in a browser field, the field automatically
>switches to another field. This problem does not exist in previous versions or
>in IE.

However, note that in the description of the bug there, the author writes: 
"Bug seems only to happen on vBulletin messageboards." This is implicitly 
reinforced by the comments on the consolidated Mozilla bug: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=257478

Not that that's immaterial, and there's an underlying site design problem 
of using accesskeys from the numeric keypad, but the bug is not, 
apparently, universal to all web forms.

Tk


Trip Kirkpatrick
SysAdmin / Programmer
Center for Language Study

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