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

On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > 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, Make sure that the hotkey doesn't hijack any other normal browser hotkey, like friggin Google StreetView does. (Ctrl-W to close the tab doesn't work in it!). First tab sounds awesome though. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug