Space bar in browsers...

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Patrick Asselman <iceblink at seti.nl> wrote:
> On 2013-01-05 04:04, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>
>> I play some games on Google+.  They are browser based, so most of the
>> action is with the mouse.  Occasionally, however, there's a text box
>> to fill in.  Whenever I touch the space bar, the browser pages down.
>> I accepts the space, and I can keep typing blind, but it's
>> disconcerting and I'd like to turn it off, but I have no idea how to
>> start.
>>
>> This happens pretty much the same in Firefox, Chrome and Opera, so I
>> don't think it's a browser thing.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin O'Gorman
>>
>
> The web page should deal with this, and overwrite the default action
> somehow. This can be done by javascript for instance.
> If such an overwriting action is defined but you still get the behaviour, I
> would call it a bug. But I don't quite see how all browsers could have the
> same bug... so I'm suspecting the page you are using has used some method
> for the default action overwriting that only works on Windows.

I have no idea what the page did.  I was hoping it was some global
setting that I could modify.  However, I just revisited that game, and
the problem has disappeared on its own.  Perhaps there was a bug that
got fixed; I'll probably never know.

--
Kevin O'Gorman

programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.