Re: Another UI anti-pattern

Subject	Re: Another UI anti-pattern
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From	Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk>
Date	2015-09-10 08:14 +0100
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Sylvia Else wrote:

> Anssi Saari wrote:
>
>> For me it's enough to put the mouse cursor over the magnifying glass and
>> I can start typing the search terms. A quick look at the source also
>> reveals that the slash key / can be used for search as well.
>
> The behaviour is a bit browser specific. I'm using Firefox, and the
> search box doesn't get the keyboard focus until it's clicked on. IE
> works better in this respect.

I'm with firefox, and hovering over the magnifying glass does expand the 
search field for me and set focus to it ready for typing (clicking works 
too).

Also I object slightly to sites that "steal" the slash key to search 
their website, because firefox's default is to use slash to search 
within the current page (yes I can use ctrl-F to get to that, but my 
fingers are trained to use slash for search).

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