Just Let Me Write Digits

(gendx.dev)

45 points by brandon_bot5 hours ago

3 comments

soneil7 minutes ago
I'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.
kleiba21 hour ago
Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
- bux9352 minutes ago
 IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access</a>
 - Someone36 minutes ago
 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 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves/CEESL002" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/http://publib.bou...</a>That has one live link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/F29BDG00/CCONTENTS" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.bou...</a>, but from there, the trail runs dead.Do you have a link?
 - kleiba222 minutes ago
 This one maybe? <a href="https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-design-guide/page/n131/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-desi...</a>PDF link in the box on the right.
pjc501 hour ago
Web 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)
- khalic27 minutes ago
 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
 - firmretention5 minutes ago
 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.
 - Affric2 minutes ago
 These are all great nominations.Crazy to add complexity like this.
 - LoganDark23 minutes ago
 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.