Opened 13 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#5197 closed bug (wontfix)

Sortable: using a large or complex placeholder in IE8 causes drag to stop prematurely

Reported by: gimparm Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: 2.0.0
Component: ui.sortable Version: 1.7.2
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:

Description

From

http://forum.jquery.com/topic/ie8-sortable-placeholder

see minimal test case:

http://jsbin.com/umuza3/2

Steps to reproduce:

  1. In IE8
  2. Start dragging a sortable element
  3. Note the large placeholder appear
  4. Drag quickly in all sorts of directions

Expected: The sortable placeholder moves around as it's dragged

Actual: At some point (it doesn't take much) the sorting/dragging stops, even though the left mouse button is still held down.

Change History (11)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by oov

I know. This problem is caused by the following code.

//in jquery.ui.mouse.js
if ($.browser.msie && !event.button) {
	return this._mouseUp(event);
}

This process should only be applied to IE6-7.

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 13 years ago by adrian.elder

Replying to oov:

I know. This problem is caused by the following code.

//in jquery.ui.mouse.js
if ($.browser.msie && !event.button) {
	return this._mouseUp(event);
}

This process should only be applied to IE6-7.

If jquery.ui.mouse.js is updated to use Microsoft's mouse capture, this workaround for dragging off screen becomes unnecessary and the issue of mousemove firing erroneously with event.button===0 goes away with it. As an added plus, the mouse capture approach is amenable to feature detection rather than browser checking.

Mouse capture is described here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537630(VS.85).aspx

Working example of fix: http://jsbin.com/umuza3/47

Added to _mouseDown

$(this.element).each(function(){
  if (this.setCapture ){ 
    this.setCapture(); 
  }
});

Added to _mouseUp

if (document.releaseCapture){
  document.releaseCapture(); 
}

Removed old browser detection workaround from _mouseMove

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by adrian.elder

Since setCapture really should only be called on one element, I think the following approach would be preferred:

http://jsbin.com/umuza3/49

Added to _mouseDown

if ( this.element[0] && this.element[0].setCapture ){ 
  this.element[0].setCapture(); 
}

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by rdworth

See related ticket #5370

comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by oov

It is not fixed.

bad: http://jsbin.com/umuza3/53

if ($.browser.msie && !(document.documentMode >= 9) && !event.button) {

good1: http://jsbin.com/umuza3/54

if ($.browser.msie && !(document.documentMode >= 8) && !event.button) {

good2: http://jsbin.com/umuza3/55

if ($.browser.msie && !$.support.boxModel && !event.button) {

comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by Scott González

Priority: criticalmajor

comment:7 Changed 12 years ago by david.f.todd

There are two problems that a solution for this has to address:

  • Selecting an element and then dragging and dropping it offscreen has to actually drop it.
  • Quickly dragging a complex element shouldn't cause it to randomly drop.

Changing the browser check to check for boxModel or documentMode < 8 doesn't work, it just switches which of those problems you see.

The setCapture approach does appear to work, but it's important to note that the _mouseDown portion needs to occur *after* the _mouseCapture() check, because if that returns false, then _mouseUp and releaseCapture aren't going to be fired.

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by Scott González

Milestone: 1.9.02.0.0

comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by mikesherov

Status: newopen

confirmed on latest: http://jsfiddle.net/hSjMf/

comment:10 Changed 10 years ago by tj.vantoll

Worth noting that this bug does not occur in IE7, 9, or 10. Just IE8.

comment:11 Changed 6 years ago by Scott González

Resolution: wontfix
Status: openclosed

We no longer support IE8.

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