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

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:23, Noah Keitel <noah@augmentj.com> wrote: > 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. I understand. I rarely use the mouse at all myself (though I rarely use a GUI either, save for the browser). > 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. Many more did *not* want it than did, historically --- and it's an issue that's come up a few times over the years with the same results. > Thoughts? A combination of first-tab and hotkeys would be the simplest, but I also see no reason why, in the redesign effort, we don't add a preference to My PHP.net for auto-focus on page-load. That would probably be the best case for a permanent resolution here, and wouldn't be difficult to implement even to the old version of the site. -- </Daniel P. Brown> Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/