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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 1, 2016 8:43PM


> Looks like the consensus was that flexbox order should be purely visual and should not affect the logical order for the purposes of tab or virtual cursor navigation.

That was in 2014. I think there is some new discussion around the topic that may change the original thinking. But as you imagine it's not something that will immediately make it into browsers as there is some complexity to the subject. There is disagreement as to whether the Firefox behavior is a bug or works as designed.

Jonathan