Comment on Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But don’t you know? The software developers know better than you do what you want. Resistance is futile. Comply citizen. Comply.
Comment on Firefox search box jumps focus to address bar
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
But don’t you know? The software developers know better than you do what you want. Resistance is futile. Comply citizen. Comply.
Phoeniqz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
As others have pointed out, open an issue/bug report if there is a problem. What do you expect them to do? Check social media 24/7 to see if someone complains?
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, not at all, I’m not sure where you got that idea from.
What I’m talking about is when developers (or anyone else designing a public interface) utilise something which produces unintuitive results - in this case it’s the idea that when a user clicks in a box in the middle of the screen, the next thing that happens is that typed text appears somewhere other than where they clicked.
That’s not a bug, that’s just bad design.
I was sympathising with the OP who encountered this particular example, but also making fun of a general trend for this sort of thing, where companies and designers sometimes seem to think that regardless of what the user did, they should be railroaded into doing what the designer wants them to do.
It’s the wrong approach IMO, and leads to frustrating interactions with software. Or at least mildly irritating ones.