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 19:06 +1000
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On 10/09/2015 5:14 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
> 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).

Seems to be working for me now, too. I think the reason it didn't seem 
to earlier was because I'd tried the / approach, which had diverted the 
focus to Firefox's search field (at the opposite corner of the screen, 
hence I didn't see it).

So now all I need to do is train myself to stop trying to clicking on it 
the field and I won't end up at the developer's console. Of course, that 
negates 20 years of GUI acclimatisation which says that one clicks on a 
field to give it the focus.

Sylvia.

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