Re:Ask HN: Review my new single service website
by ahlatimer on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @11:59AM
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Personally, I hate it when my cursor snaps to the first open text box. Maybe I'm the only one annoyed by it, but I'd suggest against it.
I tend to like it. So you'd better do an A/B-test before committing either way.
Re:Ask HN: Review my new single service website
by RossM on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:10PM
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I agree, it's much preferable than to tabbing to it (since most sites don't use tabindexes).
Re:Ask HN: Review my new single service website
by trevelyan on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @12:53PM
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You can focus the text box without moving the person's cursor. That's a much better approach imho.
I'd thought that was what was meant originally.
But --- so websites can not only move focus around but also the (mouse) cursor?
Sure. Search for "Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position"
Can you make it not autocomplete text in the text field? Eg, type UK and it fills in UKraine ... nicer if it only auto completes when I click a result / select with arrows and press enter/tab.
Make the error page (select 1 country and click submit) much nicer, ideally inline javascript.
I'd make the results auto generate above the text fields, this way I can easily enter another two countries to calculate simply by pressing tab a few times.
It's also too hard to return back to the home page (assuming you don't do the above suggestion) -- how about a little image at the end of the sentence which when clicked takes you back to the homepage?
thats all I can think of right now - cool app!