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Show HN: Handwriting for the web
- teleclimber 9y agoHow interesting! My tabet comes with a pen, and my new Windows laptop does too. Tried it with the tablet and it worked well. Maybe there is something there? At the very least it would drive the screen scrapers nuts!
- ivanbakel 9y agoA shame that screen scrapers includes anyone with visual impairments, and that our current "text-based" web is already struggling to accomodate them.
- fiatjaf 9y agoYou should tell that to Michelangelo. He shouldn't have painted anything that wouldn't be possibly perceived by anyone with visual impairments.
- ivanbakel 9y agoThere's a difference between saying no non-accessible media should exist and making changes to media which add very little and simply serve to make it less accessible than it already is.
- always_good 9y ago> making changes to media which add very little and simply serve to make it less accessible than it already is. If that's what you think this fun little project is, you have lost your grip.
- ivanbakel 9y agoWhere do I say that I think this applies to the project in the OP? I'm talking about the idea of "driving screen-scrapers nuts". To implement the project just for that purpose is anti-access, which doesn't reflect on the project itself.
- martyvis 9y agoActually many people think that the mainstream use of text and keyboards is inaccessible. My 84 year-old mother-in-law was quite bamboozled trying to do a bank transfer and the multiple tab forms, passcodes, 2FA SMS, etc
- teleclimber 9y agoYes this is true. Such a system would not be accessible. Not cool.
- czechdeveloper 9y ago502 Bad Gateway for me :/
- culot 9y ago502 Bad Gateway for me :\
- iveqy 9y agoSorry, for some reason the site is a bit unstable. It's up now again.
- jason_slack 9y agoit is unstable because you didn't sanitize your user input before committing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_sanitization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_sanitization
- Exuma 9y agolol @ sanitize user input
- madnerd 9y agoThis is way funnier than it should be, it is great to share simple schematics fast.
- sogen 9y agoFun!
- brian-armstrong 9y agoI would advise people not to click this for now. Right away it opens an alert generated from user content. Hard to say what other JS is being run from user inputs but best not to risk it.
- ChristianGeek 9y agoEspecially stay away if you’re mobile! I thought I had entered a time warp back to the 1990s.
- modinfo 9y agothe idea is very interesting, really very interesting, but unfortunately the implementation is not the best notice: simple xss possible
- ytjohn 9y agoWhen I click the link, I see some handwriting, and 4 images of an owl moving around. Then a second later, it redirects me to a site called debsys.com, which kind of seems to be a q&a site, or a demo of one.
- perryprog 9y agoSo uhh... seems like some XSS happened. I would advise take this website down ASAP, and fix your bugs, and sanitize your database.
- smichel17 9y agoIt looks like someone injected a redirect to example.com, so that's nice to mitigate issues for now.
- vit05 9y agoWas the site hacked? BTW, I little of topic about the site, but on topic about handwriting. Is there any research about using handwriting on mobile as password? Not just put your choice word and type on the keyboard, but writing using your fingers.
- iveqy 9y agoTIL: * people loves to draw penises (don't know any good way of preventing this, except require accounts) * never be lazy with xss
- stephenr 9y agoHoly fuck that is a lot of penises.