Status: Assigned Owner: fin...@chromium.org Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-Misc
New issue 6815 by fin...@chromium.org: Find box should contain gray text when empty http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=6815 Brian Rakowski filed this internally <b/1094450>: When you invoke the find box, have gray text in the box that says, "Find in page" until the user starts typing. Peter Kasting replied: But isn't the cursor already in the box by default? Seems kind of weird to have helper text when the box is focused and waiting for input, rather than when it's blurred... This might be tricky to pull off if we actually put the text into the edit, since we'd want to detect that this text is non-user text and thus we should disallow keyboard/mouse selection of it, or in fact even cursoring through it. I guess we could try and paint a label over the top of the edit, I don't know how easy that is. Brian: That's a reasonable concern, however, look at the login screen for windows vista as a counter example. It's not confusing at all--the gray text disappears as soon as you start typing. I can show you if you don't have access to a vista machine. Peter: Yeah, I have Vista at home. I noticed this when I started using it and thought it looked glitchy (and still do), but you're right that it wasn't really confusing. I guess that leaves us with worries about implementation difficulties. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
