On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 00:08:06 UTC, Kapps wrote:
I do agree that the design of the current site is rather dated. I rather like your new proposed design as well. One thing that could be nicer is the search bar being a button to click. It's standard now to just make it an input of type search with place-holder text now, which is faster and more useable. Even better, it could be automatically focused on when you load the (documentation) page so you can immediately start typing to look up an API / language feature.
Autofocus breaks site navigation: instead of returning to where you were previously, you end up focused on search box, which is really annoying. It also breaks page navigation (similar mistake: floating top panel on dart site). Whether it's standard or not, I don't know, because when I see such disgusting UX, I leave the site and never return if possible. What you are talking about is what opensearch is for: you type request right in the browser without opening any site and get straight to the search results. I personally don't use search on the site and forcing it on me on every page transition would be undesirable.
