Just Let Me Write Digits
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Just Let Me Write Digits
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#2Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
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#3Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work.
(saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some reason the JS is handling raw keys rather than processed characters)
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#4Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
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#5Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Maybe, but I’ve searched for it many times out of curiosity, but have never managed to locate it online, and wouldn’t know if paper copies exist.
From Wikipedia, I get to https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/http://publib.bou...
That has one live link: https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.bou..., but from there, the trail runs dead.
Do you have a link?
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#6Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work. (saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some reason the JS is handling raw keys rather than processed characters)
Former web dev here, you’re… right :-/ the only thing that angers me more than this pattern is when they decide to fuck up scrolling
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#7Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work. (saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some reason the JS is handling raw keys rather than processed characters)
Former web dev here, you’re… right :-/ the only thing that angers me more than this pattern is when they decide to fuck up scrolling
Same. Whenever I visit a website and it has that ridiculous scroll-smoothing JavaScript, I get so annoyed because I have pixel-level trackpad scrolling on macOS and they're just making it feel terrible.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Maybe, but I’ve searched for it many times out of curiosity, but have never managed to locate it online, and wouldn’t know if paper copies exist. From Wikipedia, I get to https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/http://publib.bou... That has one live link: https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.bou... , but from there, the trail runs dead. Do you have a link?
This one maybe? https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-desi...
PDF link in the box on the right.
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#9I'm curious if there's a reason this six-cell mechanism has become the defacto?
It seems this should just be a single input field styled appropriately, but it feels like there must be an underlying reason I'm missing.
Re: Just Let Me Write Digits
#10Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't work. (saving you a click: AZERTY has digits on the shift key, and for some reason the JS is handling raw keys rather than processed characters)
Former web dev here, you’re… right :-/ the only thing that angers me more than this pattern is when they decide to fuck up scrolling
My most hated one is not allowing me to right-click to open a context menu, or even worse, making right-click act the same as left-click, redirecting me to some page I never intended to go to.