Re: [Usability] Find bar variants

[Maurizio Colucci <seguso forever tin it>]

Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 16:53 +0100, Christian Persch wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > there are now at least 3 GNOME applications which employ a firefox-style
> > find bar. However, every one is doing is differently, as demonstrated in
> > this screenshot [http://www.gnome.org/~chpe/find-bars.png]:
>
>
> I assume there is some sound reasoning behind putting the find bar below
> then content rather than above it?  Something more educated than
> 'because firefox did it like that' would be nice...

Firefox probably did it because it had to show another popup bar on top 
(the popup block bar), which could clash with the search bar. Its 
visibility was more important, so it had to be on top.

However, this was decided after they had the idea to make the bars flash 
in order to attract attention.

Provided the search bar flashes apparently enough, it seems to me 
there's no reason to prefer top positioning to bottom.

Maurizio