On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 14:15 -0700, Kirk Bridger wrote: > I think Firefox used to do the pre-select in the URL field and I > always found it difficult to use. Or is it IE that currently does > this?
FYI Firefox and IE on Windows automatically select the text on first click, the latest version of Firefox and Opera on Linux lets you click wherever you want. >From what i can tell just by clicking in every possible text box, this is standard behaviour in Gnome (anyone who knows better feel free to shut me down on this one). This fact alone would be a compelling reason to have a clear button, or at the very least to not automatically select text with one click. I'm not sure if using colours as an indicator of search state would suffice, especially for those with vision impairments. Red and green are probably the most recognised colors in terms of meaning (bad/no/error vs good/yes/success) but obviously can't be used. Any other pairing of colors would be arbitrary. There needs to be redundancy in another mechanism to provide a sense of search state. That will have to wait for another email however as right not I'm stumped for something clean and simple. Cheers, -- Matt _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
