Re: [css3-flexbox] ordering and accessibility concerns

On 06/25/2012 04:54 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> I'm thinking more of the cases where, say, you use
> 'order' to bring one item to the front.  For example, if I have some
> featured comments on my blogpost implemented by tagging them with
> class='featured' and ".featured { order: -1; }", I'd like them to be
> first when tabbing through all the "reply" buttons.
>
> So basically, the two primary use-cases for 'order' (arbitrary page
> layout, and pulling some elements to the front of a container) have
> completely different desired default behaviors. :/

So, thinking about your use case, how would you want your content
to appear in
   - a speech browser
   - a UA that doesn't support CSS (or has it turned off)
? Because if you want things reordered there, too, then you just want
to reorder the content in the DOM.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2012 06:31:39 UTC