Redesign of dlang.org

Aleksandar Ruzicic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 21 07:56:26 PDT 2014


On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 13:14:12 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 11:42:54 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I hate that too.  It also breaks in-page search with "/", which 
> I use a lot.
>
> In fact, I get seriously annoyed whenever a web site does 
> *anything* to make my browser behave in an unexpected, 
> non-standard way.  Like those sites that hijack the arrow keys 
> for navigation between images or blog posts.  Or GitHub's 
> keyboard shortcuts.  Grrrr...
>
> When I want that stuff, I use a browser plug-in like Vimperator 
> or Vimium.  I shouldn't have to install an add-on to *disable* 
> it.

Agreed. But given that I'll be implementing "preferences page" 
where you can choose your UX settings there can be autofocus 
on/off option too (which I would gladly disable by default).


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