[whatwg] tabindex="" feedback

Adele Peterson adele at apple.com
Thu Apr 24 09:32:22 PDT 2008


Safari has a preference that puts those elements in the tab order, and  
it allows you to get that effect on the fly by holding the option key  
down.

Also, buttons (and links) can be focused at any time with JavaScript  
focus() calls.

On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:47 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

>> Note that UAs do not even agree on what elements are focusable by
>> default. In Safari, links and <input type="button"> controls are  
>> not in
>> the tab order, for instance, to match Macintosh UI conventions.
>
> The spec caters for this.
>
> Can <input type="button"> controls be focused at all, on OS X?




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