Just keep in mind accessibility too if you're going to be putting the visual label inside the form field as a value attribute instead of a label before the field, as well as issues when no JS enabled/supported. Not a major problem, but just make you consider those two requirements ... it can be annoying have to manually strip out the contents of a field when there's no JS to do it for you - especially if you're using a screen-reader and don't notice that you're submitting a search query for "Search archives ...design"
-- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Bob Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think a major contributor to usability in fields like that are > watermarks in the textboxes to make them stand out more. Kind of like > the "Search Archives..." searchbox on this ixda site in the > rightnav. I think nowadays you can even dump the labels and put them > right in the textboxes. > > [Email ] [Password ] > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29751 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
