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RE: Clickable labels WAS: Adding a label to search box

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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Apr 12, 2006 7:10AM

> ben morrison

> But doesn't the web operate differently to operating stystem
> conventions - you never get a hand pointer - unless you are clicking
> URL

Clickable URLs/links are not really present in the operating system,
though, whereas form elements certainly are, and it therefore makes
sense to at least keep that in consideration. Of course, from a
usability point of view, it may be worth somehow alerting the user
that clicking a label will have the effect of activating/focussing
the related form element, in case they haven't learned this already
from using their OS (although there may also be an argument that
they may not click the labels because the majority of websites
out there still don't use label elements properly, so they've given
up on even trying, despite maybe knowing about it in their OS).

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