What I don’t like about auto focusing inputs
–––––– March 5, 2010 ––––––
A big problem with auto focusing into a form element is doing it when you actually don’t need it. eBay & iStockPhoto are two great examples for this.
When you watch the videos, you’ll see that if I scroll the page while it’s loading, the auto focus script triggers when the page loads and it takes me to the top.
Auto focusing is usual right? Helping users accessing to the search. But the problem here is, I actually don’t need help. Because I’m on a search results page, which I came to check out results not to do a search again.
Where it is useful is, the homepage. Because on the homepage the most important element for these two sites is the search.
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