[WikiEN-l] The New Look

[Magnus Manske]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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. :-)

Or, you just type your search query, then hit the "cursor up" key to
select the last point in the dropdown box, which is the good ol'
search function. Hit enter, and there you go.
Saves me one key stroke (before, two "tabs" to get to the "search"
button, now one cursor key).

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

Indeed.