On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 21:44:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 4/19/2014 6:56 AM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
Ok here's a mockup of search concept I would like to implement:
http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-search-concept.png
Search suggestions feature would surely require JavaScript but
IMHO it
would be a really nice enhancement.
I don't know anything about the specific search-suggestion
engines, but as far as looks I (mostly) really like it. Only
two comments:
- There should be some visual indication of the search box
besides the text itself. It *looks* nice as you have it, but
practically speaking it'd be a bit awkward to not be able to
see the box itself.
OK, I'll work on a design more, I'll also try to have real
designers involved to help me with these UX stuff.
- A *lot* of search boxes on the internet these days bake the
"Enter search term here" (or whatever) text into the HTML,
forcing non-JS users to delete the text before they're able to
enter their search term. That's bad UX. Instead, the "Enter
search term here" text should be *added* via JS and left blank
in the raw HTML. That's a trivial way to ensure it works great
for both JS and non-JS users.
Nowdays there is something called placeholder attribute[1] on
input elements that servers just for that purpose (text goes away
as soon as you start typing) and there is no JS needed for that
as it is supported by all major browsers. But I like to add
fallback (that works even without JS, but better with JS) for
that on old browsers which don't support that feature.
[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Forms_in_HTML#The_placeholder_attribute
