usability Questions

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I was wondering if it was ever ok not to have a submit button (Ok, Go or Search for example) near a search box in Web pages. I know that hitting enter is much faster and that it will perform the s...
Premonition asked 24/2, 2009 at 13:49

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I recently discovered that the :invalid pseudo-class applies to required form elements as soon as the page loads. For example, if you have this code: <style> input:invalid { background-color...
Duumvir asked 27/10, 2011 at 18:43

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I have a relatively simple (no classes) python 2.7 program. The first thing the program does is read an sqlite dbase into a dictionary. The database is large, but not huge, around 90Meg on disk. It...
Lucielucien asked 1/8, 2011 at 1:46

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I have a form that displays queue of messages and number this messages can be changed. Really I want to blink label (queue length) when the number of messages were increased to improve form usabili...
Ikeda asked 18/2, 2011 at 14:32

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In a brand new Rails application with a scaffolded RESTful model, the generated delete code looks like this: class BeersController < ApplicationController # DELETE /beers/1 # DELETE /beers/1....
Appellative asked 24/6, 2011 at 22:2

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I would like to create project in PyCharm by open directory. I use https://github.com/metachris/tornado-boilerplate as a root of the project. I encountered that files are shown in red color in proj...
Uremia asked 21/5, 2015 at 22:4

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Is there a way to make Vs-code on Mac only zoom the text/file pane of the window? When I hit Command ⌘+ to zoom, it'll zoom all of the window, ie. also the icons on the left hand side and the file ...
Reggie asked 16/4, 2018 at 7:20

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One query I would like to have if anyone could answer it like: Do not keep activities options to be checked during testing android mobile application from developers options. I used it in my appli...

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Is there a possibility to find the usages of a Scala class'es constructor in IntelliJ? When using "Find Usages" on such constructor, it also applies to every usage of the class'es signature (since...
Pitchy asked 8/8, 2016 at 17:55

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I have a basic table in a container. The table will have about 25 columns. I am trying to add a horizontal scroll bar on overflow of the table and am having a really tough time. What is happening n...
Marnie asked 5/11, 2013 at 16:43

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I'm designing an iPhone app that features a rather large set of onscreen rounded rect buttons. Given finger-based touchscreen UI, what do you think would be the smallest sensible button size? I nee...
Placer asked 18/12, 2009 at 15:51

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Is it possible to configure Eclipse to cut lines with Ctrl+X? Is it more intuitive and leave Ctrl+D to duplicate lines? I am trying IntelliJ now and keep typing Ctrl+D to delete lines which duplica...
Aerostation asked 1/1, 2011 at 18:25

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I'm writing a Python library that represents some web API. Right now, my library directory looks close to this: __init__.py Account.py Order.py Category.py requests.py In __init__.py, I have so...
Biweekly asked 27/9, 2019 at 19:27

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Emacs has a useful transpose-words command which lets one exchange the word before the cursor with the word after the cursor, preserving punctuation. For example, ‘stack |overflow’ + M-t = ‘overfl...
Wigeon asked 26/9, 2008 at 19:16

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my question is: is there a good (common) algorithm to create numbers, which match well looking user understood numbers out of incomming (kind of random looking for a user) numbers. i.e. you have a...
Ballplayer asked 18/2, 2011 at 16:14

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Why on sites like Stack Overflow, Techcrunch, Smashing Magazine, etc. are the page titles (i.e. the text at the top of the page) clickable URLs that redirect to the same page that the user is on? ...
Scalade asked 24/5, 2009 at 18:29

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I'd like to customize the "unsubscribe" links in our email newsletters so that they remove the recipient with a single click. Right now they just point to a generic page where the user has to enter...
Narcho asked 6/8, 2009 at 19:34

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Is there any reason to avoid using text-align: justify;? Does it reduce readability or cause problems?
Rustle asked 24/11, 2008 at 23:16

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I know that I can mark unsaved files with asterisk if I check the corresponding check box in settings. But when I close the tab IDEA is not asking me "Do you want to save changes?". Tab is just clo...
Chiccory asked 13/6, 2013 at 14:7

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I know they are, but my co-worker doesn't believe me. He keeps telling me that Google crawls the inside content and caches it just fine. According to Google, it does crawl them, but doesn't guarant...
Unclasp asked 18/6, 2010 at 23:38

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What is the purpose of making 3 priority level by WCAG? is it like? If client not paying extra or if we don't have much time then go for A If client paying then or if we have time to make site c...
Marleah asked 10/3, 2010 at 3:29

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I would like to show a tooltip, i.e. additional non-essential information about a View when the user long-clicks on it. The two options I see in front of me are using an OnLongClickListener to co...
Closegrained asked 19/2, 2011 at 0:17

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A member of my company in greater ranking than myself refuses to use recaptcha.net on his website to thwart spam off of a public form. He thinks it would be difficult for anyone coming to our...
Janeanjaneczka asked 22/1, 2009 at 22:8

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An extenstion of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50335/ok-cancel-or-cancel-ok Where should the APPLY button go (clicking the APPLY button has the same effect as clicking OK, exc...
Children asked 13/9, 2010 at 22:41

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After working for a few days with Eclipse Java I totally got addicted to pressing Ctrl and clicking on an identifier to go to its definition. Since then I've been looking for a way to achieve this ...
Magnate asked 3/10, 2008 at 18:59

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