Type message here... and Send button absence

[Ka-Hing Cheung]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 23:17 -0700, Steven Brown wrote:
> I totally agree: the Send button shouldn't be there, or people will want 
> to click it, interrupting their ... I dunno... "chat flow."  :)  I just 
> thought a little message telling them exactly what to do and expect 
> might be nice - especially for first-time chatters.   =)
> 
> Opening a conversation window for the first time, a user will see two 
> nearly identical white boxes with not much hint of what they do or how 
> to use them.  If the entry box had "Type your message here and press 
> Enter to send." it would be 110% clear, I think.  Like a web form that 
> has default instructional text that is greyed out, like "enter search 
> term" and when you focus on that input, it disappears.

That's not a bad idea.

-khc