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Plausibly it tests out that people who expect the arrow keys / space to scroll the page get more annoyed by having to click out of a search box than people who
by kemayo 14y ago
Plausibly it tests out that people who expect the arrow keys / space to scroll the page get more annoyed by having to click out of a search box than people who want to search right away get annoyed by having to click into a search box.
- spullara 14y agoIt seems like it would be easy to capture 'space' and arrows keys in the textfield and do the right thing. Anyone seen someone do that?
- MichaelApproved 14y agoYou wouldn't want to capture the space key because you'll need that in search queries but the arrow keys sound like an idea for those interested in accommodating both cases.
- salvadors 14y agoYou pretty much never want a space at the start of your search query though, so you could DTRT based on whether there's preceding text there or not.
- MichaelApproved 14y agoGood point but I think it's now coming to a point where confusion might come into play. It's a balance between inconveniencing someone with auto focus and confusing someone else.
- saraid216 14y agoArrow keys and page down sound like "activate autocomplete" to me.
- spullara 14y agoBefore you type something? That seems odd.