Last modified: 2008-11-04 02:16:56 UTC
The Nostalgia skin has a search box at the end of the page, but this position makes it very difficult for the user to click on Ajax suggestions when they are enabled. I suggest for the search box to be moved up, besides the special pages dropdown menu, which some text (eg "| Search:") separating them.
Created attachment 5407 [details] patch to move the search box up in Nostalgia This patch moves the search box up in the Nostalgia skin, to enable users more easily use the Ajax suggestions feature. The search box is removed from the footer and placed underneath the special pages drop down menu.
It seems to me that the more correct fix for this would be to have the Ajax thing make the selection menu go up, not down, if the search box is too close to the bottom of the page. My browser's built-in form suggestions do this already. The bug is in the Ajax search, not Nostalgia, IMO.
Nostalgia skin looks like the one used by usemodwiki on purpose I think, which also has its search box down under, so now that I am thinking about this moving the search box up would be viewed as a big change from the style of usemodwiki. Taking into account that many users of Nostalgia use it because it reminds them of usemodwiki, it would be perhaps more appropriate to do what Aryeh Gregor says in Comment #2 and make the Ajax thingie go up. So now we can consider this a bug of Ajax search, not Nostalgia.
This bug is now replaced by bug #16235
