[thelist] Re: IE dots (yet again)

George,

> Actually there is a good (if obscure) reason for having those dots...
> but I can't now remember exactly what it is ... 

	While the display of the dots is intended as a visual cue to users
where the focus is located, the bigger issue with removing focus from a
button or link (often a hyperlinked image) is that you can destroy
usability, and make for some strange behavior in your pages. If you're using
a keyboard to navigate through a page and tab to a control, giving it focus,
only to have a function blur the control, you can see this will create some
usability problems.

James Aylard
mailto:jaylard@equilon.com