Mark J. Reed wrote: > On 9/21/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, I agree with you, but that's hardly relevant. > > I dunno. Independently coming up with the same expectation goes > toward the validity of that expectation . . .
Not necessarily. Take margin collapsing, for instance. Almost no one would think it's intuitive until it was explained to them, and many still wouldn't agree with it. Just because we think elements with overflow: auto that don't actually overflow shouldn't receive focus when tabbing doesn't mean the standards writers or browser developers agree with us. In fact, the Firefox developers obviously don't! So again, I'm not interested in what people think should happen -- and that's not on-topic for this list -- but rather what really should happen. Or, as I said in my original email, I would like to know if this is something that no one has specified what should happen, and it's just completely up to the browsers (very possible). > >> Firefox doesn't do what we think it should do, and my question, >> again, is whether it is >> correct for it to do what it is doing. > > Correct according to what, though? CSS doesn't even specify what user > agents are supposed to do with "overflow: auto"; getting down to how > keyboard shortcuts behave is way out of scope. Is there a formal spec > for Gecko? Yes, the W3 specs. :-) Again, though, I've acknowledged that there may be no spec that specifies what a browser should do in this case, and thus it would be up to the browser to decide. I just want to know if this is or isn't the case. Does everyone finally understand my question? I didn't think it was that complicated. :-) Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
