Create a jQuery plugin for handling the tabindex attribute in a cross-browser way.
Description
It's hard to figure out if a tabindex has actually been set because of variances across browsers. A simple jQuery plugin should be written to abstract this process. Here's a thread from fluid-work documenting the various issues:
Implemented and committed. Awaiting code review from Simon, Michelle, and Eli before forwarding along to the jQuery community.
Colin Clark January 2, 2008 at 12:58 AM
There seems to be a problem in Opera (on both platforms) where negative tab indices return "0" instead of the correct value. So if you set the tabindex to -1, it will report 0 on a call to jQuery(element).tabIndex().
It's hard to figure out if a tabindex has actually been set because of variances across browsers. A simple jQuery plugin should be written to abstract this process. Here's a thread from fluid-work documenting the various issues:
http://fluidproject.org/pipermail/fluid-work/2007-December/001129.html