https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52812
--- Comment #20 from Connor Behan <connor.be...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #18) > (Copying from bug 13941 comment 7) > > The objection to the user preference is that the default behavior should be > sane without the need to add user interface clutter. Most visitors don't have > user preferences and most users never set their user preferences. If there's > a reason that people can't stand these suggestions, we should find a way to > either remove them or improve them. Letting users opt out is sometimes a > valid position to take, but it's generally a last resort, given the > constraints > and context (i.e., how most visitors experience the site and how most users > interact with it). And we can generally allow opting out without re-adding > the user interface clutter, via user JS and CSS subpages. For limited cases, > this solution works really well. I think this is one of those cases. The last resort is warranted when there is a sharp disagreement over which behaviour is sane. But I should see how my gadget proposal goes before I do more arguing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals#Disable_AJAX_search_suggestions I will start telling people from the Village Pump discussion unless there's a way to turn on the gadget for everyone who had disablesuggest before. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
