Re: idea (this would be super fast to implement)

So my initial response to "what if I don't want to auto focus" was that it wouldn't hurt your experience to have the field focused. I understand the use of the keyboard for scrolling wouldn't be possible if the field was auto focused. However, if you just made it the first option to tab to that would be almost as good as an auto focus in my opinion. I just want to be able to get to the field without having to move my hand over to the mouse every time I come to the site. One thing to think about is that IF the population that wants the field auto focused is greater than those that don't, we could auto focus the field and then the smaller percentage that didn't want it focused because of their keyboard page scrolling could just tab out of it since their hands are on the keyboard already. either way, it would just mean tabbing to the field, or tabbing out of it. Thoughts? Noah On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Daniel P. Brown <daniel.brown@parasane.net>wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:04, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Bjori, Stewart - do you see any negative points to this? If not I'm happy > > to go ahead and apply it. > > There were always enough arguments to shoot it down. One of which > is that (since this thread just makes up its own statistics as it is), > 4,321% of the population who use the keyboard for scrolling will then > need to tab out of the auto-focused field. > > If anything, why not compromise with hotkeys for auto-focusing the > search field? > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> > Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting > (866-) 725-4321 > http://www.parasane.net/ >