Comment 38 for bug 164526

(In reply to comment #33)
> (In reply to comment #32)
> > Is there any proposed scheduled release date for version 1.9?
>
> A year from now, more or less.

That's more than a disappointment---it's inappropriate. After years of complaining about IE's weird requirement of giving controls "layout" to make them position correctly (see http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html ), we find that we have to do something similar (with a similar cause) in Firefox just to get a cursor. With AJAX becoming more popular, this is a problem that will be showing up again and again---every AJAX application will want to put up a DIV-based popup containing a text INPUT.

> Try one of these workarounds.

All of these "workarounds" only "work" for test pages for which you know in advance the exact pixel layout and for which you don't care if it works on IE. None of the "workarounds" deal with the more common real-life scenario of having a popup containing flowed content such as an AJAX framework might generate:

<div class="popupFrame">
  <input/>
</div>

We just started testing a large application for a vertical market that uses AJAX, only to find that all of the popups lose the cursor on Firefox. We can't wait a year to get it fixed, and we need a workaround now for Firefox 1.0x and 1.5. Can anyone give a suggestion---please?