- From: Ojan Vafai <ojan@chromium.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:41:10 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Received on Thursday, 29 July 2010 23:42:00 UTC
Use-case: Building modal DOM-based elements (e.g. modal dialogs) is very difficult right now. You need to capture and handle all sorts of events to cancel (e.g. tab, mouse events, etc). Instead, focusin/focusout should be cancelable. If either event is cancelled, it should cancel the focus change within the page. The UA is free, however, to blur the top-level window and, for example, focus the address bar. This allows sites to provide a modal experience in a reliable way, without a lot of code, but still disallows a web page from trapping keyboard focus. Currently focusin/focusout are not cancelable in IE or WebKit (the only browsers that implement them). It seems it would likely be very safe in terms of backwards compatibility to change this. Ojan
Received on Thursday, 29 July 2010 23:42:00 UTC