Just Let Me Write Digits

(gendx.dev)

44 points | by brandon_bot 5 hours ago

3 comments

  • soneil 4 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.

  • 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.
  • 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 23 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
      • firmretention 1 minute 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.
      • LoganDark 20 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.