Re: Another UI anti-pattern

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Another UI anti-pattern
Date	2015-09-10 12:59 +1000
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On 10/09/2015 4:26 AM, Anssi Saari wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> writes:
>
>> Example here
>>
>> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
>>
>> If you want to search something, you click on the magnifying glass,
>> and the field expands to the left, pushing the Developer Console
>> button to the left as well.
>
> 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. I believe
> someone complained about the lack of a keyboard shortcut...

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.

Sylvia.

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