Ben Galbraith's Blog

International "Focus Abuse Awareness" Month

(Cross-posted on Married... with Children)

I am so sick of badly behaved focus behavior! I hate it when websites have onload handlers that do janky things with the focus, moving it to some arbitrary form field, not realizing that many users start interacting before the page is completely loaded. I hate it when desktop applications steal the focus, causing whatever I've been typing in some other appication to be lost.

Please, please, can we just all work together for a world where the active window keeps focus until the user decides otherwise? Where websites are smart enough to change focus only if you're not currently interacting with the page, if they insist on changing focus at all?

Comments

• Dude, we totally need a badge/icon we can put on our websites. :-)

  Posted by: rbair on April 18, 2006 at 02:06 PM

• AGREED!

  My favorite is when I try to navigate backward with Shift-TAB (Windows) on a website and go nowhere!

  Posted by: phlogistic on April 18, 2006 at 05:52 PM

• Yeah, some kind of banner with 'Say NO to focus thieves!' text ;-)

  100% agree...

  Posted by: spk on April 19, 2006 at 03:39 AM

• sadly one of the focus stealer is IDEA in windows. Also Firefox was once a big focus monster...

  Posted by: ahmetaa on April 19, 2006 at 08:50 AM

• +1 over here - it's getting on my nerves more and more these days...

  Posted by: alexlamsl on April 19, 2006 at 10:47 AM

• Agreed completely. Yanking focus is extremely rude, unfriendly even. In my opinion, this kind of stuff is a severe GUI defect. And yes, I do get complaints from users if my products do this.

  Posted by: allanc on April 25, 2006 at 05:49 AM

• I'm thinking of a GUI campaign with a slogan name like
  'Ridelin -- staying focused, regardless'.

  
  Just say no to all ADD GUI applications!

  LOL

  Posted by: cupofjoe on June 01, 2006 at 08:18 PM

• Vote for the bug! :)

  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5098172

  Posted by: troybowman on January 09, 2007 at 12:44 PM

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