[webkit-dev] tabIndex

[Darin Adler]

On May 23, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Johan Lund wrote:

> Another question, related but regarding tabIndex. Does Safari treat  
> a tabIndex of -1, 0 or 1... differently? I believe it is treated  
> differently on some browsers.
>
> 1... component can be focused both by pressing tab and programatically
> 0 component can only be focused programatically
> -1 component can not be focused at all

tabIndex support is different in different versions of WebKit and  
Safari.

The latest round of improvements were these:

     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7138
     http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/32664

With those changes, -1 and 0 do have special meanings, but they are  
not the meanings you list here. What we're working towards is the  
tabIndex behavior specified in HTML 5: <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#tabindex 
 >.

You'll have to ask a more-specific question if you want a more precise  
answer.

     -- Darin