The patch responds to a number of complaints from folks who found the default behavior surprising.
Normally I'm all about the conservatism, but what tips it for me in this case is that the thing is called a SuggestBox, in a package called the Google Web Toolkit. To me the principal of least astonishment says it should act like, you know, the famous Google Suggest Box widget on the Google home page. rjrjr On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Isaac Truett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that precedent can be found for either side. If you want an example > from a web site, there's the "to" field in Gmail. I'm sure you have another > counter example and we could continue this exchange (might actually be fun, > but we should probably do it off-list). I think choosing the appropriate > behavior is up to the developer. In some situations you want to steer users > towards suggestions and in other situations you don't. I doubt I would be > surprised by either behavior. Is there an explicit doctrine in place to > favor protecting less stoic developers over preserving existing > applications? If this were a new Widget, I would see this point as merely a > nitpick. For a published Widget, however, I think a more conservative > approach is desirable. > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Ray Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> But if you compare the suggest box to its peers on actual web pages >> (especially including our own), you'll find they don't do this auto >> select thing. I think the current behavior is more surprising than the >> new behavior, and warrants the break. >> >> rjrjr >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Isaac Truett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Can we reconsider the default setting? If you want a precedent for >> > automatically selecting the first suggestion, try Chrome. When I type >> > "mail" >> > into the omni bar, it automatically comes up with the first suggestion, >> > "mail.google.com/mail," preselected. >> > Adding a switch is a great idea but is doing so with a breaking change >> > really necessary? >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Ray Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> This >> >> addresses >> >> http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=2330 >> >> The SuggestBox will no longer select its first item by default. In case >> >> there are existing apps that prefer this behavior, a boolean property >> >> (selectsFirstItem) is added to turn it back on. >> >> rjrjr >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
