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SPACEBAR is heavily used as PGDOWN. Auto-focus ruins that. I use SPACEBAR that way on nearly every site, so let's not talk about anecdata like it's concrete bes
by icelancer 12y ago
SPACEBAR is heavily used as PGDOWN. Auto-focus ruins that. I use SPACEBAR that way on nearly every site, so let's not talk about anecdata like it's concrete best practice UX.
- hayksaakian 12y agoI do this too. Pressing tab one time to escape auto focused inputs is not a big deal to me.
- fredoliveira 12y agoPressing tab one time usually lands you either on another form field or the actual submit button, which hitting the spacebar would submit. Autofocus is great on search engine homepages or search-oriented sites. Amazon isn't search-oriented when on the site. They assume their recommendations are usually spot on enough that you'll click through a percentage of the time, or that you googled straight into the product page (as most people do).
- Doctor_Fegg 12y agoSo do I, but that's fixable with a little bit of JS, given that you're not going to start a search query with a space.