[WikiEN-l] The New Look

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/05/2010, AGK <wikiagk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I prefer the old location for the search box, yes. But I think that's
>> because I'm _used_ to it being on the left. I think the usability team
>> gave a rationale at one point for the new box location, and I seem to
>> recall it being quite a sound one.
>
> Under firefox, the new search box is quite buggy actually. I just
> tried typing really quickly into it on a slow machine, and ended up
> with only half the information appearing; the third time the full
> information briefly appeared, and then shortened itself and in each
> case it went to where it now said (nowhere useful). Only one out of
> three times did I end up at the right page, and it clearly wasn't
> simply my typo since I didn't touch the back key.

<sigh>

I'm used to typing the term for a page I know is there and hitting
"search" (instead of "go") because I want the results of a search
rather than being take to the page (e.g. when searching for people not
listed on a disambiguation page, though they should be). How do I do
that now? Ah. I click the small microscope icon and type in the full
search page instead. :-)

Learning to find your way around a new interface is half the battle.

Carcharoth