On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:09 AM, Kornel Lesinski wrote: > Does that really matter?
Yes, focus highlighting does matter. I come across this daily -- and I'm a keyboard user by choice... > In Firefox and IE there is a focus border anyway. Which isn't exactly prominent - it provides a faint outline around the element. Changing the background and text colours in the CSS is much more prominent and is easier to spot. Besides, we add :hover effects to things for mouse users - why wouldn't we also provide similar benefit to keyboard users? > IE doesn't support :focus or outlines, so there isn't much you can > help. Right, however, IE (mistakenly, I suspect) treats :active the same as :focus. Adding a separate rule for IE and :active will provide the benefits for IE keyboard users... For example: ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
