At 10:07 PM 3/2/2002 -0000, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: >1) I don't think it's intuitive. The "Press enter" text in the search >field is not 100% explanatory - I think it could be misinterpreted (e.g: >"So I press "enter" and that will let me search"); but when I press >"enter" nothing happens at all, only after I have moved focus to the >text field is "enter" activated. Now, we are all familiar with this >behaviour, but some might not be. > >2) Where's the button? On web forms, we are all used to seeing a >"submit" button in one guise or another. It's not here!!! Suddenly I >have to unlearn what I know and learn a new methodology. That's not >good.
I brought this up too. I think the use of images for buttons is common enough on other sites that we could go that way. Or, if you want a real form button you can add something like style="font-size: 8px; border: 1px black solid" to both the button and the text field to make them look a little less form-like (or less prominent). I have used javascript to place the cursor in the field before, and feel like that is a reasonable thing to do, as it doesn't really change what happens on the page if they don't have javascript enabled, and it means you can just type and hit enter. Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
