[whatwg] Drop tabindex=""

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 21 00:00:28 PDT 2007


Dropping tabindex /might/ make sense if HTML5 was to be so feature
complete that no-one would ever build a DHTML widget out of generic
elements ever again. Is this likely to be the case? Because, if not,
tabindex looks like part of a solution:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Key-navigable_custom_DHTML_widgets

Of course, we might want to try to improve on tabindex and fix the
scoping problem. Perhaps:

<div id="foobar">
<div tabgroup="foobar" taborder="2"/>
<div tabgroup="foobar" taborder="1"/>
</div>

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis




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