- tabindex=0 doesn’t affect ordering, does it?
- why do you need to listen for events at the document level?
not that i disagree with the article, but some arguments didn’t seem right.
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- why do you need to listen for events at the document level?
not that i disagree with the article, but some arguments didn’t seem right.
The issue isn't with tabindex=0 specifically, but fucking with tabindex in general. People go down that path, and start putting that shit on everything, like it's Frank's Red Hot.
And in my experience, the same folks who use div's instead of button's are the ones who don't know better and start throwing tabindex around.
"why do you need to listen for events at the document level?"
Not events generally, keydown events specifically, which do not fire on child elements of the document.
Are you sure? I have a 17 year old HTML tool written using plain, vanilla JavaScript where keydown on a child element seems to have been working as expected.
https://susam.net/quickqwerty.html
https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty/blob/1.2.0/quickqwerty....
Nice article, by the way!