Awesome, thanks guys.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:20 PM, James Hawkins<jhawk...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Peter Kasting<pkast...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM, James Hawkins <jhawk...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Will you accept opinions of the opposite? I love our current behavior
>>> and can't stand having to triple-click in Firefox.
>>>
>>> Consider the following cases.
>>>
>>> a) The user is trying to completely change the contents of the omnibox.
>>> - Current behavior: 1 click
>>> - Suggested behavior: 3 clicks
>>>
>>> b) The user is trying to modify the contents of the omnibox.
>>> - Current behavior: 2 clicks
>>> - Suggested behavior: 1 click
>>>
>>> I have no facts to back up this claim, but I'd say that 70% of
>>> operations are of the former (a), with the caveat that this is a
>>> conservative estimate based on my personal experience.
>>
>> I chatted with several people just now about the Mac behavior, since unlike
>> Linux, there aren't "blowing away my clipboard" concerns and it seemed to me
>> that the argument above was compelling. According to pinkerton, the
>> behavior in Chrome Mac is not just to match Safari, Camino, or platform
>> conventions, but ultimately for the same reason that Camino decided to
>> place-cursor-on-click instead of selecting all: editing was thought to be
>> common enough that selecting all becomes frustrating.
>> To me something is wrong when we argue opposite (non-platform-dependent)
>> conclusions on different platforms, so I filed http://crbug.com/19879 about
>> collecting some real-world data to inform this debate. If we found that 99%
>> of user navigations followed replacing all the text, for example, I would
>> plead strongly with the Mac people to change their decision; if we found
>> that 50% of navigations involved editing, I would probably argue we should
>> reverse the Windows and Linux behaviors both. Of course, if we do get this
>> data, the numbers are unlikely to be so clear-cut. But we won't know until
>> then.
>> If anyone wants to contribute a patch to do this, it would be welcome...
>> PK
>
> I absolutely agree. My 70% guesstimate was purely based on my own
> behavior, and I have no idea how it's used for the majority of users.
> Most of our UI decisions in the past have been based on user data, and
> this is another experiment we should set up. I'm willing to look into
> what's required to run this experiment.
>
> --
> James Hawkins
>
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