On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 13:14:12 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad
wrote:
On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 11:42:54 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
Autofocus breaks site navigation: instead of returning to
where you were previously, you end up focused on search box,
which is really annoying. It also breaks page navigation
(similar mistake: floating top panel on dart site). Whether
it's standard or not, I don't know, because when I see such
disgusting UX, I leave the site and never return if possible.
I hate that too. It also breaks in-page search with "/", which
I use a lot.
In fact, I get seriously annoyed whenever a web site does
*anything* to make my browser behave in an unexpected,
non-standard way. Like those sites that hijack the arrow keys
for navigation between images or blog posts. Or GitHub's
keyboard shortcuts. Grrrr...
When I want that stuff, I use a browser plug-in like Vimperator
or Vimium. I shouldn't have to install an add-on to *disable*
it.
Agreed. But given that I'll be implementing "preferences page"
where you can choose your UX settings there can be autofocus
on/off option too (which I would gladly disable by default).
