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0 pointsint_19h5y ago0 comments

The standard behavior of Esc is to abort the current interaction - which is not the same as closing the dialog. For example, if you have a dialog with a drop-down list, and open that list, Esc should close it, not the whole dialog.

In this scenario, the "current interaction" is IME input. The bug is that the page intercepts Esc keypresses intended to be handled by it.

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wccrawford5y ago

I haven't checked in a while, but I'm pretty sure the dialog has no idea that the IME is active or not. So the dialog can't handle that situation, and the browser isn't handling it either. The IME/browser should not send escape to the page when canceling an IME selection.

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