[whatwg] tabindexscope

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Erik Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 13:54, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> > Surely that would be better than having authors manage local regions 
> > for tabindex, especially since the positioning depends on the CSS 
> > level, not the HTML level, and thus trying to manage the tabindex in 
> > the HTML would be a layering violation anyway.
> 
> Assume the developer is building a component/widget/group of elements in 
> isolation from the rest of the application/page. He wants to define the 
> tab order of the elements under his control to be something else than 
> the browser provided default order. To do this correctly today the 
> developer would have to update tabindex on all existing keyboard 
> focusable elements.
> 
> What you are saying is that the developer should not try to manage the 
> tabindex which to me implies that user agents should ultimately ignore 
> the developer provided tabindex?

For components, we should do what we did with XBL2 -- say that within a 
component, tabindex="" values are scoped to the component.

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