[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8154043: Fields not reachable anymore by tab-key, because of new tabbing behaviour of radio button groups. [v3]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:01:43 GMT, Kazuhisa Takakuri <ktakakuri at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Why was the jdk8 backport denied in 2016? I tried to find it through JBS and email but could not find it. If adding an interface is the problem, this backport is fine.

There is a [comment](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8154043?focusedId=13996474&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13996474) on the bug from 2016 that says "No plans to fix for JDK 7 and 8", but it doesn't go into details as to whether this is due to risk or resources, so it's not clear if that is actually a denial or not. Given this was a fix made during the development of 9, the code it was developed against should be fairly close to 8u's and indeed, this backport only really diverges code-wise in that it also incorporates 8182577.

That comment also seems to have been superseded by the backport of this change (and then 8182577) to Oracle's 8u311 by Alexey Ivanov.  I think it's also worth noting that this is a regression from 8 GA due to [JDK-8033699](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8033699) being introduced in 8u45.  If that backport was suitable for an update release to break this, then presumably the fix should be too.

This brings us back to @theRealAph's question as to why to do this now if it has been broken for so long. What piqued your interest in this bug? Are you or others hitting it in real use? Or was it just a case of Oracle fixed it, so we should?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/285#issuecomment-2657889867