Just a note that most users don't know that you can use enter to submit.
Brian Duchek wrote:
You're gonna shoot yourself in the foot if you go one step further
without diving as deep as possible into answering the question "why
does he want this?"
If you're making something that looks like a web form on a web page to
be accessed by web users, then it's pretty clearly folley - a short
test with some users will bear this out. Do it in front of your
"insistent client" and he'll have a hard time disagreeing with you.
If you're making something that looks like a tax-form wizard on an
interactive/business application that just "happens" to be delivered
via a browser and is targeted at people with 30 years of data-entry
experience, then the same test will reveal that having their form
submit when they hit "enter" (instead of moving between data fields)
will be a terrible usability burden.
Know thy user as thy self =)
Either way you'll have a difficult time overiding the default behavior
of a browser, so you better count on needing javascript enabled (and a
healthy testing budget) to develop this behavior. When you get down
to it, it's not that hard to implement with some keypress listeners.
The idea about a confirmation dialog (while not-efficient) seemed a
good one, when used as part of a "smooth degredation" scheme.
</bd>
On 2/27/07, Andrew Maben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Roper wrote:
Hi,
A customer has requested that they should be able to navigate between
input
fields on a form by using the Enter key - i.e. to replicate the
action of
the Tab key.
I've seen examples of Javascript code to do this, but I'd be
interested in
any feedback on whether there are any issues with this and what the best
approach is to implement.
Thanks,
Nick
I have to agree with Darren and Barney, it is an astoundingly anti-user
proposal, as you present it.
But perhaps your customer has some convincing rationale for wanting
to do
this? If so, I'm sure we'd all be fascinated to hear it.
Andrew
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Gainesville
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Cell: 352-870-6661
http://www.andrewmaben.com
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instructions."
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