Search Service:User Interface Design: Difference between revisions

← Older edit

Search Service:User Interface Design (view source)

Revision as of 21:17, 16 March 2006

63 bytes added , 16 March 2006

→‎Toolbar Search Box

GavinSharp

Confirmed users, Bureaucrats and Sysops emeriti

722

edits

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 == Toolbar Search Box ==
-A browser window search box for performing internet searches. Has one selected engine at a time. The user can quickly change the engine by using a dropdown menu or by typing the alias of an engine in either the search or location bars before the search term. The user can bring up the Manager user interface using the last item in the dropdown menu:
+A browser window search box for performing internet searches. Has one selected engine at a time. The user can quickly change the engine by using a dropdown menu. The user can bring up the Manager user interface using the last item in the dropdown menu:
 <pre>
      +-------------------------+
-     | @v Google Search        | <-- dim text that disappears when user
+     | @ Search Google       |V| <-- dim text that disappears when user
      +-------------------------+     focuses field
-     +-----------------------+
+    +-------------------------+
-     | @ Google (/g/)        |
+    | @ Google                |
-     | @ Google Images (/gi/)|
+    | @ Google Images         |
-     | @ Froogle (/froo/)    |
+    | @ Froogle               |
-     | @ Amazon.com (/am/)   |
+    | @ Amazon.com            |
-     | @ IMDB (/imdb/)       |
+    | @ IMDB                  |
-     | @ Bugzilla (/bug/)    |
+    | @ Bugzilla              |
-     | --------------------- |
+    | ----------------------- |
-     |   Edit this list...   |
+    |   Edit this list...     |
-     +-----------------------+
+    +-------------------------+
 </pre>
-(not sold on the alias display)
+When the toolbar is in customization mode, the user can also drag an attached gripper to make the search box bigger (at the expense of other flexible elements on the same toolbar).
 == Search Box Context-Sensitive Menu, Go Option ==
@@ Line 42: / Line 42: @@
 == Automatic Detection ==
-See the Code Design page for more informatin about the autodetect algorithm.
+See the Code Design page for more information about the autodetect algorithm.
 When the user searches from a specific site > a certain number of times, present some sort of notification that they can add that site to their search box easily. One possible way: