On 4/19/2014 5:57 PM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 21:44:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
- There should be some visual indication of the search box besides the
text itself. It *looks* nice as you have it, but practically speaking
it'd be a bit awkward to not be able to see the box itself.
OK, I'll work on a design more, I'll also try to have real designers
involved to help me with these UX stuff.
Honestly, I think you're selling yourself short here. You appear to have
a pretty good eye for design.
- A *lot* of search boxes on the internet these days bake the "Enter
search term here" (or whatever) text into the HTML, forcing non-JS
users to delete the text before they're able to enter their search
term. That's bad UX. Instead, the "Enter search term here" text should
be *added* via JS and left blank in the raw HTML. That's a trivial way
to ensure it works great for both JS and non-JS users.
Nowdays there is something called placeholder attribute[1] on input
elements that servers just for that purpose (text goes away as soon as
you start typing) and there is no JS needed for that as it is supported
by all major browsers. But I like to add fallback (that works even
without JS, but better with JS) for that on old browsers which don't
support that feature.
[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Forms_in_HTML#The_placeholder_attribute
Interesting, first I've heard of it. I'll have to try it out, see if
browsers are intelligent enough to *not* make users delete it when JS is
off. If so, then that's a pretty nice attribute.
