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

We have supported a keyboard shortcut to the search box since the late 90s. If you mouse over the leading text "Search for" you see the "S" is underlined, indicating it is the accesskey. On Linux (and I believe Windows too), hit alt+s to focus the search box. -Hannes On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 18:25, Noah Keitel <noah@augmentj.com> wrote: > or yes, any hotkey would work too.  however, I think most people's hands > would generally tend to migrate towards the tab key as that's what they'd > be used to from other sites. > Noah > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Paul Dragoonis <dragoonis@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Fair point Daniel, and I like your thinking. >> >> GitHub has had great success with hotkeys. >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:15 PM, 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/ >>> >> >>