Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

Post by gbog » Fri, Mar 08, 2013, 2:45 PM UTC

oftenwrong wrote: post #179

b3n wrote: post #126

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You can always disable auto-focus on the client side if you don't like it. I have 'focuscontent' set in Vimperator which will "Focus the content after a page has loaded. [...] When on, it blurs any textbox which often is automatically focused on page load." I'm sure there are similar extensions for your browser of choice.

>You can always disable auto-focus on the client side if you don't like it. Spoken like a true hacker. Too often a site discussed on HN is criticized for a design decision that is easily changeable on the client. Anything that is slightly inconvenient for one specific workflow is a "misfeature", ignoring entirely that many people like it that way. A site designer cannot please everyone. Most non-hackers do not even n…

Post by peterjaap » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 2:49 PM UTC

cowpewter wrote: post #124

revorad wrote: post #97

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Off-topic, but can't miss this opportunity: Please tell us why the Amazon homepage doesn't auto-focus into the search box. I think of this every single time I go to the site.

/rant I loathe online store sites that auto-focus the search box. Worst are the ones that do it on every single page, including item detail pages. I use the space bar to scroll webpages down, especially on my laptop, which has a very small screen so that I almost always have to scroll down to get past header crap and get to the meat of the page. And no mouse, just a mediocre touchpad. I can maybe accept auto-focusing…