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Re: Flexbox layout ordering and tabbing order

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 12, 2015 6:55PM

> A quick test [3] shows that FIrefox uses the CSS/visual order, but IE11, Chrome and Safari go with the source code order.

It was my understanding from reading the documents that the visual order changes should not affect the focus order and the Firefox behavior was a bug.

I would agree with you that this does warrant a broader discussion and consideration of both approaches. Historically CSS was used for presentation only -- but as I'm seeing that ship which I thought was the community was on has sailed away and things seems to be shifting away from that approach. So perhaps we need to reconsider the role/relationship of CSS in general. If CSS is no longer just for presentation then we have a stronger argument to say the CSS order should become focus order -- but then what if we want the order to be different? How could the author specify not to use the CSS order for focus order?

Jonathan

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