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Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dredmorbius »

keeganjw wrote: post #27

This reminds me of when the spacebar stopped working in the YouTube search box. I thought my keyboard broke for a sec until I realized it worked just fine everywhere but YouTube. Then later I found out it wasn't just me... https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/10/22323716/youtube-search-b...

Spacebar fails to work in the PocketBook e-book reader search dialog, when using an attached Bluetooth keyboard.

Rather than insert a space in the search term, it scrolls the document.

The backspace key fails to work in Pocket when editing tags. Instead it's necessary to either use the key (if available), or to highlight and overwrite text to be replaced.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by dredmorbius »

black_puppydog wrote: post #108

I feel like in a thread like this, Asana deserves a shout-out for utterly fucking up the UX in any firefox version I've tried, up to and including nightly. Typing in the various text input fields has ~1s of lag. It's a TEXT FIELD for fuck's sake!

Pocket, again.

It can take upwards of one full minute for text to start appearing when typing tags.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by spaztastical »

JasonFruit wrote: post #59
bitwize wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Foone is a they.

This sounds wrong too. Maybe, "Foone is they"? You don't want to misnumber them, though; maybe "Foone _are_ they"? That makes them sound epic, though: Foone are legion! Changing language is hard, whether done organically or initiated intentionally and for a purpose.

ee/ee's? or ze?

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by sellyme »

floatboth wrote: post #241
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just let a text area do its job? Why do you need a special "text editor"?

most users would like to decorate their posts with bold underline color whatever and would not want to learn markdown

Users who don't wish to learn markdown can simply spend two seconds hovering over a "Markdown guide" tooltip at the bottom of the textarea whenever they want to do that. They'll still end up saving time from the UI actually being responsive instead of loading 50 different JS libraries just to render a textbox.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by Doxin »

alfonsodev wrote: post #9

> So you are typing "Don't" and the ResetCursorPosition() function gets called and you look at the textbox and now it says "on'tD" I had this bug trying to implement a text editor using Draft.js but not sure it was for the same reason. I guess tumblr devs tried to implement a text editor and at the same time have some vim like shortcuts(jkl). This makes you appreciate how less can be more.

Spotify sometimes manages to somehow get into a state where typing in the search box will end up typing everything in reverse, so instead of "Don't" the box contains "t'noD". The only thing that seems to get it out of this state is losing window focus. Just losing focus on the search box doesn't help.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by selfhoster11 »

macintux wrote: post #162
athorax wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh. My. God. I have been wondering why when I come back to my PC after it being asleep I've been on random squarespace login pages. I usually tap esc a couple of times to wake up my computer.

I learned years ago to use as “safe” a key as possible to wake up my computer, so I settled on Control. Wish I could remember what led me to that decision.

I use control. It's neutral to password entry on Windows and Linux lock screens, and either neutral or an escape key from a VM back to the main desktop.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by IshKebab »

eptcyka wrote: post #4
IshKebab wrote: post #2

Just hotkey detection gone wrong. Not that big of a surprise because implementing hotkeys on a website is a complete minefield. I don't think you can conclude that Tumblr is badly written from this. Badly tested maybe.

Did you read the whole thread?

No because Twitter makes it completely unreadable.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by masswerk »

BTW, for an ironic twist, as this is posted on Twitter:

On Safari/macOS, you can't refocus on a Tweet by clicking anymore (if not signed-in already), as this inevitably brings up a sign-in dialog, which resets the view selection in the same instant. As this is not the case with other browsers, I guess, it's not the intended behavior. However, as it has been so for a while now, Twitter seems to be happy with this.

Re: While posting to Tumblr, E and W keys just stopped working

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Post by thesmok »

miah_ wrote: post #73
atribecalledqst wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get into a similar state on MacOS by pressing a key multiple times in a row (option I think). It just quietly disables a large number of keys. I figured it out by accident one day because I assigned the key as my "push to talk" on Discord. That was a fun hour trying to figure out what had happened.

On MacOS if you remap your capslock to control there is a race condition on the login screen. If you use the control/capslock key to wake up your laptop and manage to time it right, you can enable capslock but not have a way to disable it (unless you remapped another key to capslock (why?)).

I'm using Caps Lock key to switch between input languages, but I can still use the caps lock mode by pressing Shift + Caps Lock. This is macOS built-in functionality.
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