On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 13:54, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > Surely that would be better than having authors manage local regions for > tabindex, especially since the positioning depends on the CSS level, not > the HTML level, and thus trying to manage the tabindex in the HTML would > be a layering violation anyway.
Assume the developer is building a component/widget/group of elements in isolation from the rest of the application/page. He wants to define the tab order of the elements under his control to be something else than the browser provided default order. To do this correctly today the developer would have to update tabindex on all existing keyboard focusable elements. What you are saying is that the developer should not try to manage the tabindex which to me implies that user agents should ultimately ignore the developer provided tabindex? -- erik