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Bug 17555 - Allow ("may") UAs to make any element focusable if they so wish
Summary: Allow ("may") UAs to make any element focusable if they so wish
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-06-20 06:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-12 18:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-06-20 06:15:17 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#focus-management
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#focus-management

Comment:
Allow ("may") UAs to make any element focusable if they so wish

Posted from: 85.227.159.48 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.3; U; en) Presto/2.10.229 Version/11.64
Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:48:20 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18241 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-09-17 19:30:39 UTC 
Will add: "Notwithstanding the above, user agents may make any element or part of an element focusable, especially to aid with accessibility or to better match platform conventions."
Comment 3 contributor 2012-10-12 18:05:13 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7459.
Check-in comment: Allow even more flexibility in deciding what's focusable.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7458&to=7459