Dropping tabindex /might/ make sense if HTML5 was to be so feature complete that no-one would ever build a DHTML widget out of generic elements ever again. Is this likely to be the case? Because, if not, tabindex looks like part of a solution:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Key-navigable_custom_DHTML_widgets Of course, we might want to try to improve on tabindex and fix the scoping problem. Perhaps: <div id="foobar"> <div tabgroup="foobar" taborder="2"/> <div tabgroup="foobar" taborder="1"/> </div> -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis