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How is the average person supposed to know to do that?
by dbbk 10y ago
How is the average person supposed to know to do that?
- codinghorror 10y agothe type of people that prefer the generic browser facilities over custom search aren't "average people".
- JasonSage 10y agoI feel like I'm a pretty average person. My instinct when I'm looking for something is to Ctrl+F, not scour the UI for a search bar. Anecdotally, I know people who are not programmers who are the same way.
- accountyaccount 10y agoif you're here, you're not an average person
- cookiecaper 10y agoWould these "average people" try to press Ctrl+F? If the argument is that most of the public is ignorant to the client-side jumping/highlighting facilitated by Ctrl+F, what purpose does overriding Ctrl+F serve? It seems that people who press Ctrl+F would have an expectation of what should happen next, and people who want custom search would move their mouse to the search bar and click. Maybe a better compromise would be including a modal or a hint highlighting the site-wide search box without suppressing the native Ctrl+F functionality.
- pilsetnieks 10y agoThe average person doesn't use ctrl+f/cmd+f; but still, for the ones who do, having to press it twice breaks muscle memory, it draws attention that something is broken or doesn't work quite like everything else.