Re: [w3c/webcomponents] Mechanism for setting the tabindex focus flag without sprouting tabindex attribute? (#762)

In all honesty, I've never understood why `tabindex = -1` is a thing, other than for excluding things from the tab order - i.e. why aren't all elements programmatically focusable? What do we gain from `focus()` sometimes being a no-op? Who is out here trying to call `focus()` on a `<div>` and hoping it ... fails?

But that aside, I guess allowing focusable things to also opt out of the tab order is probably useful for managing focus within complex components.

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