I find it useful to have the keyboard's "focus" placed onto the first input text element on several of the forms in the html templates.
The changes to the html are minimal: a setFocus() javascript function is added to header.html, the <body> tags are modified to include 'onload="setFocus()"', and the first <input> element of type="text" is given the attribute of 'id="initial_focus"' on the thirteen templates where I thought it would be helpful.
The javascript works on W3C compliant browsers, IE4+, and fails safely and quietly on others.
I'm not part of the development team so instead I've included the patches here as a tar.gz attachment (about 1k). If someone would like to apply the patches to the development tree I think most users would find the changes useful; otherwise, feel free to apply them to your own installations as you see fit. I've been using these since 1.0.6.
Thanks, Mike Wright
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