Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-07-24 8:34, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 7/24/14, 1:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: However, browsers actually impose an upper limit of 32767 In Chrome and Firefox, values larger than this are interpreted as 0. In the case of Firefox, this was a bug, that was fixed a few months ago.

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Olli Pettay
On 07/24/2014 09:10 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 2014-07-24 8:34, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 7/24/14, 1:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: However, browsers actually impose an upper limit of 32767 In Chrome and Firefox, values larger than this are interpreted as 0. In the case of Firefox,

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/24/14, 2:10 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: I’m afraid the fix does not work. Sure it does. Testing the jsfiddle code there, http://jsfiddle.net/tatesn/hVv72/ in the newest Firefox (31.0, on Win 7) The newest Firefox you should be testing in for everything except what do shipping UAs do

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-07-24 17:24, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Are there any use cases for tabindex values greater than 32767? We've seen use cases for forms with that many form controls (large forms parts of which get conditionally shown/hiden based on values filled in for some of the controls), so I would think

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/24/14, 3:13 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: So how have authors handled the issue in the current situation where browsers fail to support tabindex values 32767 and do that inconsistently? By not using tabindex on those forms and possibly having sucky keyboard navigation. Having that many

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread Charles McCathie Nevile
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:10:55 +0200, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2014-07-24 8:34, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 7/24/14, 1:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: 1) Keep tabindex unlimited and try to make browsers implement this. This is what we should do, in my totally biased opinion.

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-24 Thread L. David Baron
On Friday 2014-07-25 00:19 +0200, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote: Having 32k items in a page doesn't seem like the real-world problem would be numbering the tabindex, but the fact that there are 32k active things you're trying to manage in a single ordered list… Having a notion of scoping for

[whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-23 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
The tabindex attribute is defined so that its value must be a valid integer. No other restrictions are currently imposed. However, browsers actually impose an upper limit of 32767 (which is in accordance with HTML 4.01: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-tabindex ). In

Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

2014-07-23 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 7/24/14, 1:29 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: However, browsers actually impose an upper limit of 32767 In Chrome and Firefox, values larger than this are interpreted as 0. In the case of Firefox, this was a bug, that was fixed a few months ago. See