[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 22261] Clicking on a non-text input element does not give it focus

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22261

--- Comment #75 from Patrick H. Lauke <redux at splintered.co.uk> ---
"The webpages that are theoretically and aspirationally platform-independent, but in the end strongly depend on this specific behavior from Windows."

Two points here:

- it's not just Windows. The same also happens on most (all?) Linux distros and their window managers (and then browsers that run on them).
- for the web to work as a platform/host environment agnostic platform in its own right, it needs consistent paradigms. otherwise, you end up exactly back where this started with platform-specific quirks/differences in behaviors.

" I’m a little sad that it seems "you must match Windows; please drop things that are different about the Mac because it is too difficult to accommodate them and keep websites compatible" is the strongly encouraged approach to cross-browser compatibility."

It's sad, yes, but that's the way cross-browser compatibility has worked for a while. Once certain patterns/approaches get entrenched and are widely relied on, other browsers usually have to grudgingly adapt. There have been plenty of cases where browsers have had to adopt things that were Safari/WebKit specific (e.g. all those prefixed CSS properties, that other browsers had to end up aliasing/emulating) in order to make sites work correctly.

"making buttons click focusable if they have a non-null tabindex value is an excellent compromise; it allows the user agent to behave in the system-default way for most situations whilst giving authors the ability to explicitly instruct the user agent that they require a particular button to be focused when clicked."

not a big fan of requiring authors to once again add extra markup/putting the onus on them to fix sites to accommodate for an idiosyncratic quirk of one particular user agent...

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