https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864
--- Comment #47 from Sindre Froyn <[email protected]> 2009-07-11 15:43:56 UTC --- I suppose I was a bit selfish when I wrote that reply the last time. I'm registered, and I get the search bar focused, so I'm happy. I still think this should be implemented as the default choice. Here is why (summary of some arguments in this discussion): ** Majority uses wikipedia to search. As noted in the previous comment, and several more further up, the majority come to wikipedia to look something up. All these would benefit with the automatic focus. ** Mouse scrollers Among the users who actually want to scroll, most probably use the scroll wheel on the mouse. This works just fine even if the seach bar is focused. ** Key scrollers For those who wish to scroll the Main_Page with the arrow keys, have the luxury of clicking anywhere on the main page or just hitting the tab key for the scroll to work as they wish. In addition I just want to point out that this most likely is a very marginal group. My guess is probably less than 1%, and yet these are the ones we favour. I just skimmed over the comments that have been written so far, and the only argument against was the one I just adressed. I had my search bar focused through my wikipedia account since February, and I am very happy with the result. It was getting quite annoying to have to click on the tiny seach bar every time I wanted to make a search (which often is several times a day). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
