Redesign of dlang.org

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

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.