Editing Incremental search (section)

==Reception==

Interface expert [[Jef Raskin]] has been a strong advocate of incremental search. In his 2000 book ''[[The Humane Interface]]'', he wrote, "From the point of view of interface engineering, the advantages of incremental searching are so numerous and the advantages of [[delimited search]]es so few that I can see almost no occasions when a [[delimited search]] would be preferred." This was followed by a footnote reading, "A search is either incremental or excremental."<ref name="raskin">{{cite book|last=Raskin|first=Jef|title=The Humane Interface|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional|date=2000-04-08|page=[https://archive.org/details/humaneinterfacen00rask/page/126 126]|isbn=978-0-201-37937-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/humaneinterfacen00rask/page/126}}</ref>

Incremental search has been criticised for exhibiting low [[affordance]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://justaddwater.dk/2007/05/05/affordance-of-autocomplete-text-fields/|title=Affordance of Autocomplete Text Fields|author=Jesper Rønn-Jensen|date=2007-05-05 |website=justaddwater.dk |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326021918/http://justaddwater.dk/2007/05/05/affordance-of-autocomplete-text-fields/ |archive-date= Mar 26, 2023 }}</ref> as the text fields which provide it offer no visual indication of that fact until after the user begins typing.