Submission details
Finder: Connect to Server/UI Improvement
By default the cursor is in the textbox. But if you want to select a bookmark, you've to use the mouse or press tab three times.
It would be better if pressing the "arrow down key" in the textbox would set the focus to the listbox. Pressing the "up arrow" while the first entry is selected, should set the focus to the textbox again.
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Discussion (2 comments)
Absolutely not. The proposed solution breaks interface consistancy. I agree with the annoyance, but a better solution would be to make a tab head down to that box first.
From a usability standpoint I don't know what the most common functions are, but that should be used to determine tab order (and button placement). I've never felt like apple cared much about this feature - it basically hasn't changed since 10.0.
abitgone wrote on February 1, 2009, 7:23pm
Try that in every other textbox and see what happens: you either get nothing, or you get an auto-complete interface. I'd say that'd be a better idea than a non-intuitive skip to another element completely.