On 4/19/2014 4:16 AM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
I'm slightly against autofocus on search field, as I am one of people who use Backspace to navigate to previous page and I'm always frustrated when I hit Backspace on Google search results page and it's not taking me to previous page. But if majority thinks that autofocus on search is a good thing (I also think that not many people use Backspace as a means of navigation) than I would make it like that (and if there would be that little preferences page/popup this option is something that can go there together with justification settings).
I use a browser extension to disable backspace navigation since I get annoyed when I try to type something and the browser decides to navigate to a different page ;).
That said, I don't really have an preference on autofocus vs not-autofocus.
Download sites do that, so does sites that sell software. I think that dlang.org should focus on promoting D as a language, and compiler implementations should not be in spotlight. Also I think that having Download in top-nav as a first option is prominent enough. I've put what I think are the most important sections in top-nav bar (other navigation items should go to context-sensitive sidebar).
I strongly believe that a prominent link the the downloads page is one of the *most* important things to have in the top-nav bar. We may not be selling it for $$, but we are "selling" people on it. I know I get annoyed when I'm on some software's website, want to download it, and have to looking around for it because I don't see a download link in the typical download link location (top nav-bar). We want people to download it and try it, so it's good to match people's expectations here.
