- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 23:32:45 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Danny Ayers wrote: > > Ok, but what concerns me is that the current approach is inconsistent. I > personally was surprised to find that input fields could automatically > gain focus but hyperlinks couldn't. I don't think that kind of surprise > is desirable. That's not an unreasonable point. The dichotomy is borne from the reason we added autofocus="" in the first place, namely that people were doing onload="myinput.focus()" with (text) inputs, and not anything else. Note that on a number of platforms, links (and buttons) can't be focused at all. > >> So when will that be on the Milestone timeline? > > > > I don't follow any particular timeline. > > But the specification does: LC, CR, PR, Rec. So if your activity on this > issue happens after Rec, the spec remains inconsistent. While the chairs are following such a timeline, I am not. In my opinion (and practice), the specification is a living standard and is not going through what I believe to be arbitrary milestones. For the purposes of editing the specification and planning when particular issues get addressed, I am paying no attention to the LC/CR/PR/etc process. > > When we should add features, etc, is based primarily on implementation > > and authoring experience. > > There's clearly correlation between experience and what gets added, but > it doesn't seem to be as directly connected as that implies (otherwise > there wouldn't be any new features). I'm not sure I follow. Could you elaborate on your reasoning? > Whatever, there *is* a fair amount of material relating to > implementation of autofocus behaviour available - focus() has been > around a long while, and a quick search suggests a popular time to use > this is on page load (for both input fields and links). Do you have examples of people doing it on links? I haven't seen that. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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