At 10:07 PM 3/2/2002 -0000, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote:
1) I don't think it's intuitive. The "Press enter" text in the search field is not 100% explanatory - I think it could be misinterpreted (e.g: "So I press "enter" and that will let me search"); but when I press "enter" nothing happens at all, only after I have moved focus to the text field is "enter" activated. Now, we are all familiar with this behaviour, but some might not be.
2) Where's the button? On web forms, we are all used to seeing a "submit" button in one guise or another. It's not here!!! Suddenly I have to unlearn what I know and learn a new methodology. That's not good.
I brought this up too. I think the use of images for buttons is common
enough on other sites that we could go that way.
OK, I've brought the submit button back. Though I've called it 'go' and left the search title in front. The best of all worlds? Or is it still bad. Looks horrible in NS4, but I gave up on this one.
Try it here: http://www.apache.org/~stas/modperl-site/
Or, if you want a real form button you can add something like
style="font-size: 8px; border: 1px black solid"
to both the button and the text field to make them look a little less form-like (or less prominent).
Tried that. but then it's not obvious that we have a button. I think if we use a shorter submit button, like I've added it will not look too outstanding/prominent.
I have used javascript to place the cursor in the field before, and feel like that is a reasonable thing to do, as it doesn't really change what happens on the page if they don't have javascript enabled, and it means you can just type and hit enter.
do you really think it worth the risk of having js messing up someones browser?
Personally I'm used that most sites don't focus automatically, so I'm always
clicking to focus anyway. Are you habits different?
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