Hi, From: Aaron Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tabindex="-1" doesn't just remove items from the tab order. It also makes items focusable via mouse click or script, which is important when designing custom container widgets like spreadsheets, etc. via Javascript. In fact any negative value does it.
Indeed.
Don't try to overload the tabindex attribute.
tabindex="scoped" is overloading indeed, but changing the tab order algorithm isn't really overloading the tabindex attribute (if we would say that all tabindex elements are scoping elements).
First, the browsers currently optimize it knowing that it's an integer.
I agree that tabindex should still be a long (and not DOMString).
Second, the scoping is orthogonal.
Then it would be better to have a separate attribute. That also allows the use of the current tab order for nested tabindex elements, and the ability to declare unfocusable scoping elements.
Third, magic values are less readable. It's voodoo.
Ok. Regards, Simon Pieters
