Even though YDN does not control the content and cannot enforce this change, here's the situation that I can see. If we remove the focus, we will have a whole new group of people complaining that the feature was removed and telling us how much they loved it. There are two sides to this and unfortunately no answer will appeal to 100% of the people.
Jonathan LeBlanc
Technology Evangelist
Yahoo! Developer Network
Twitter: jcleblanc
How about a configurable option so each user can decide for themselves? Similar to configuring how many search results are displayed on a page, whether to open a selected site in a new window, etc. It is really aggravating to me that when I click on Yahoo news articles and try to scroll down to read them, I have to click on the page first to get the cursor out of the search box. Also, if I go back a page, now my browser can't return to the position I had scrolled to, as the page jumps back to the top where the cursor is. Whether a user likes or dislikes the cursor going to the seach box may have a lot to do with how their browser responds, what they use to scroll the page, and what they are doing. If I click on a news story, I want to read that story, not do another search. Please consider a user configurable option for this, or pass it on to the department that could consider it. Thanks!
