[Usability]Re: Comments on dialog proposal

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> I don't see why it has to be that way. If a text box changes, for
> instance, the window title, I'd be perfectly happy to see it update as
> I type each character in the box. If updating on each character is too
> slow, you could wait until there is, say, 1 second since the last time
> the user typed a character.

This would be bad for accessibility reasons-- some people might only be
able to type one character per second (for example).  Which would mean
you'd have to have a setting somewhere that said "how long should I wait
before applying settings that are changed while you're typing into a
text box", which is just getting silly  :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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