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:

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