Re: [whatwg] Maximum value needed for tabindex

On Friday 2014-07-25 00:19 +0200, Charles McCathie Nevile wrote:
> Having 32k items in a page doesn't seem like the real-world problem
> would be numbering the tabindex, but the fact that there are 32k
> active things you're trying to manage in a single ordered list…

Having a notion of scoping for tabindex (and 'nav-index') would be
great.  It's been proposed a number of times, e.g.:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-xtech/2011Nov/thread.html#msg35
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-November/033775.html
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-August/007236.html

I'd be happy to see somebody drive a solution to this forward.

-David

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