It almost makes me giddy...

When I had my second interview at Yahoo! back in February, at one point I was in a room with about 10 designers and they asked if I had any questions. I asked why, when you go to the Yahoo! home page, do you have to click or tab down to the search field? Many sites, most notably Google, make an onLoad="foo.focus()" call so that the search field is automatically selected, so you can type your query and hit return without ever touching the mouse.

I thought the reason was because Yahoo! is very careful about using Javascript, their mantra being cross-compatability over flashy tech. But one of the designers commented that he thought it was a good idea and, sure enough, I was using Yahoo! last week and noticed that the code had made it to production. Now millions of people can save 2 more seconds in their day.

Gee...