- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:46:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
[redirected to www-style since it is now off-topic for www-svg] On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David Woolley wrote: > > > > as keyboard shortcuts (which are device-specific) and tab order (which > > depend on the layout used, which itself depends on the device and > > For HTML tab orders should be the natural order for filling in the > document, which really ought to be the order in which the document is > transmitted, but often isn't. They should rarely depend on physical > layout; their only real connection to layout ought to be to undo the > effects of (mis-)using document order to control layout. Oh no, there needn't be that much of a relationship between the structure and the layout. For example, the layout could say: <p> <input name="A"> <input name="B"> </p> ...(with appropriate labels, etc, of course) but the stylesheet may then quite legitimately position B (and its label) on the left side of the page and A (and its label) on the right side of the page, requiring the tab order to be switched if the user is to remain sane. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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