3 Easy Interface Improvements

[Maurice Weitman]

I'd love to know what's wrong with typing Cmd-L to get the cursor 
into a completely selected address bar.

What am I missing that so many keep harping on making an option which 
is against UI guidelines and for which such an elegant, "workaround" 
is already in place?

Regards,
Maurice


At 11:26 AM -0700 on 5/8/02, Eugene Lee wrote:
>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:13:29PM -0500, Charles J Risher III wrote:
>:
>: 3 - Select Address Field
>:
>: Make the entire address automatically selected when clicking in the
>: Address Field.  99% of the time I click there it is to type in a new
>: address, and it is annoying to have to keep triple clicking or clicking
>: and dragging to select the address.  If you prefer it the other way,
>: please at least make this an option.
>
>I don't like this idea from a consistent UI standpoint, but I understand
>why it's useful.  The idea is that people can click to the Address Field
>to enter a new URL to visit.  Currently, OmniWeb treats this like any
>line of text, following normal UI rules of single/double/triple clicking
>that affects cursor placement and text selection.  But it's more work to
>triple click the Address Field just to select the old URL and overwrite
>it with the new URL.  To do the same thing, how about letting the user
>single click on the bookmark symbol next to the URL?
>