673385 - Dragging text into the QuickSearch field on index.cgi doesn't delete the help text in this field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Hello,

Windows XP. Firefox 3.0.1.

I encounter a bug and usability problems.

I create a Firefox tab. I go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org . I get this: photo Quick-Search.png to come. Onto the Quick Search field, I drag-and-drop from Internet Explorer 667149, because I want to look at this bug. I get that: Quick-Search-after-drop.png to come.

Even without this bug, providing the clue for a field inside this very field, in light grey on white, is a bad idea, for these reasons:

Primo, to see the clue, you need sharp eyes and keen attention.

Secundo, the clue helps you to fill in the field. But the clue is absent when you need it most: when you are filling in the field. Seeing the clue while you are filling the field is useful, but is impossible. After you have filled in the field, the clue is absent too; if you want it, too bad.

Thanks for correcting and improving that,

Nicolas

Comment 1

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Attachment: Quick-Search.png

Comment 2

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Attachment: Quick-Search-after-drop.png

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

confirming; maybe we're betting off just using the placeholder attribute?

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Using light grey is common usage. About the drag and drop issue, this is really minor.

Comment 5

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

The "placeholder" attribute has the downside of disappearing that I explained.

Much better: the "label" element.

Comment 6

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Firefox 3.6.13, Win XP.

I encounter the same problems with the email field which appears when I click "Log in" on the page of a bug.
I drag-and-drop my email address into the email field, from IE.
I get my email address surrounded by "email a" and "ddress".

Comment 7

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

I encounter this bug on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org , on Mac, when dragging from Firefox to Firefox.

Comment 8

[Frédéric Buclin]

Attachment: patch, v1

Now that we moved to HTML5, we can use placeholder, autofocus and required. This replaces our previous JS code.

Comment 9

[Frédéric Buclin]

(In reply to Nicolas Barbulesco from comment #6)
> I encounter the same problems with the email field which appears when I
> click "Log in" on the page of a bug.

This part is already covered by bug 888731, so let's focus on the initial problem described here.

Comment 10

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 8358677 [details] [diff] [review]
patch, v1

Review of attachment 8358677 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=dkl

Comment 11

[Frédéric Buclin]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/trunk/
modified template/en/default/index.html.tmpl
Committed revision 8865.

Comment 12

[Frédéric Buclin]

I forgot to also delete the now obsolete quicksearch_help_text CSS class from global.css. Thanks Christophe (bug 1007138 comment 2):

To ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/bugzilla.git
   ba7d46f..44da595  master -> master