Difference between revisions of "Talk:WMF UX Improvement Effort"

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11. It may be nice if the text typed in the search bar stayed there instead of being wiped out, if in case we want to go back up and tweak it. Like, in Firefox, what I've typed in search bar stays there.
11. It may be nice if the text typed in the search bar stayed there instead of being wiped out, if in case we want to go back up and tweak it. Like, in Firefox, what I've typed in search bar stays there.
: This is now implemented. [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)


12. This is just an extreme test : for zero results, with sample search string 'rtgrtrt', should there be a message saying "no results found for rtgrtrt" , or should it just give a popup (no, too jarring!) or something and not browse away from the article we are currently reading? Right now it shows a blank search results page with the line "Results 0-20 of 0 for rtgrtrt".
12. This is just an extreme test : for zero results, with sample search string 'rtgrtrt', should there be a message saying "no results found for rtgrtrt" , or should it just give a popup (no, too jarring!) or something and not browse away from the article we are currently reading? Right now it shows a blank search results page with the line "Results 0-20 of 0 for rtgrtrt".


13. Pressing Escape key when typing in search bar is currently the same as pressing Enter. Previously with Search bar being used this was harmless, but now it takes us away from our current page. We might want to cancel our search instead of going ahead with it.
13. Pressing Escape key when typing in search bar is currently the same as pressing Enter. Previously with Search bar being used this was harmless, but now it takes us away from our current page. We might want to cancel our search instead of going ahead with it.
: Fixed [[User:Kelson|Kelson]] 19:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)


14. Quite a large amount of screen real estate being wasted in search results. Could we render it in a table of 2 columns instead? Then maybe more search results per page can be accommodated.
14. Quite a large amount of screen real estate being wasted in search results. Could we render it in a table of 2 columns instead? Then maybe more search results per page can be accommodated.

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