When you're right, you're right. I really can't justify the breaking
change. I've switched the default to maintain status quo, so this
change is now purely a new method. Submitted to 1.6 as r3873.
rjrjr
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Isaac Truett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Google home
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
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
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
The Google home page? Is that really a factor in this decision? I'm honestly
surprised. Should we expect hosted mode to reject HTML pages with more than
28 words by default? I mean, what's good for the Google home page... or were
you being facetious?
I only see one complainer in issue 2330. If you
