Just Let Me Write Digits

37 points by brandon_bot 4 hours ago | 7 comments

kleiba2 1 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.

bux93 36 minutes ago | |

IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

Someone 20 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 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?

pjc50 1 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)

khalic 10 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

LoganDark 7 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.