- From: Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:14:17 -0700
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, timeless <timeless at gmail.com> wrote: > fwiw, w/ the mobile browsers i work w/, random focus changes are > incredibly annoying. > > we had a "manager" who insisted on a "feature" where the browser would > move focus to the urlbar in certain cases. > Why is the manager making decisions about U/X? Does he believe he is qualified to do that? Unless somebody properly tells him otherwise, he may likely go on believing that. > as a result users often have text they're typing spread across at > least two input areas. > Is it username and password? GMail does that, changing focus around on me and it is annoying when I get the error message telling me that I typed the wrong password when I didn't; gmail just changed focus around on me and that caused a problem. > needless to say, our users/engineers are not amused. > Did you demonstrate the problems? There is a chance that he is totally ignorant to the consequences of doing that. Maybe his typing is also slow or maybe he doesn't use the feature repeatedly/ > also note that dom insertion is somewhat random, so: > > ? <form> > ? ? <input id=c1 autofocus> > ? </form> > ? <form> > ? ? <input id=c2 autofocus> > ? </form> > > could either focus c1, or it could focus c2, depending on random-ish > things like packet size. > Sure, and that code would surely e a mistake; perhaps using two separate include files. The developer adding the second might wonder: Why does c2 not get focus? He would find his mistake, eventually (hopefully soon!) and fix it.
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