[whatwg] Proposal: tabindexscope

Simon Pieters simonp at opera.com
Tue Nov 8 23:04:05 PST 2011


On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:52:45 +0100, Eric Sh. <shedokan1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then I think it's a good idea, in modern web applications using tab(for
> example in gmail) is really messy and keeping track of the order of ALL
> focusable elements is very hard.
> And if scopes are added it is much easier to track focus that way.

Agree.

> But I think that once you tab one more time on the last element of a  
> scope
> thenit should go to the first element in that scope.

Disagree.

> That way you can add tabindexscope to forms and all elements of the form
> will be loopable.

Why is that desirable? How is the user supposed to break out of the scope?

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Simon Pieters
Opera Software



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