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--- ideas:nav-index [2013/04/17 09:53] – add another issue url Tantek
+++ ideas:nav-index [2014/12/09 15:48] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 There have been a number of concerns raised with the current 'nav-index' property. This page is to document them and the resulting discussions, with the aim of addressing these issues in a future revision of the UI module.
+===== External Issues To Be Incorporated =====
+Extract issues from these and document here as subsections explicitly:
   * [[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jun/0479.html|Visual vs. logical ordering switch]]
   * [[http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/0712.html|Handling HTML5's new 0 and -1 behaviors]]
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   * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2011Nov/0034.html
   * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2011Nov/0035.html
+  * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/thread.html#msg440
+===== Should HTML specify something =====
+HTML has the tabindex attribute (with various levels of browser support) which has been specified there to some extent:
+* http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#sequential-focus-navigation
+===== HTML or CSS or both =====
+Does nav-index belong in HTML or CSS or both?
+Current thinking: likely both.
+HTML already has tabindex (see previous).
+CSS should specify nav-index because:
+  * CSS3-UI already specifies directional nav-* properties
+  * Any style sheet that explicitly specifies the 2 dimensional directional nav-* properties will likely want to also explicitly specify sequential navigation order as well.
+  * Keeping both sequential and directional nav-* in the same style sheet will help them stay "in sync" across site changes etc.
+    * Or rather, having to do them separately in HTML vs CSS will likely cause them to get out of sync.
+However, nav-index was in a CSS3-UI CR draft for MANY years and there was no implementation.
+Thus only when there is a strong demonstration of implementer interest (2+ commitment to implement) should we consider adding it to CSS4-UI.
+===== within a dialog and browsing context =====
+We should define how to pick the next/previous element in sequential focus navigation, to make sure it's clear that it stays within a dialog and browsing context.
+More details and follow-up:
+  * https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24719
+===== contextual scoping =====
+Need contextual scoping for sequential focus navigation.
+More details and follow-up:
+  * https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23960
+  * http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Nov/thread.html#msg441