[whatwg] comment on autofocus attribute from Web Forms 2.0 spec

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Adele Peterson wrote:
>
> I saw the need for this in our Web Inspector, which has a lot of custom 
> controls (including some that use contenteditable elements).  Some of 
> these don't have a default focused appearance, but its nice that they 
> can follow the focus pseudo-class CSS selector.
> 
> I agree that the disabled attribute would fit in well with this.  
> Again, it would be nice for these custom controls to be able to use the 
> disabled pseudo-class CSS selector.

I really would rather see XBL2's <div> element be extended to be
focusable and disablable rather than have HTML support this. Does that 
make sense?

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