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Except that your example is only “great” because Slack is reimplementing text input- another thing that maybe should just be handled by the system. Is it great
by brianpan 7y ago
Except that your example is only “great” because Slack is reimplementing text input- another thing that maybe should just be handled by the system.
Is it great that Slack also has its own autocorrect and doesn’t know about the system autocorrect?
- skrebbel 7y agoI'm not sure how autocorrect is related. How would you let text input with emojis and formatting and code blocks be "handled by the system"? I agree that on most platforms, emojis are a solved problem (although the UX could be better), but the rest isn't. Sure, like all chat apps, what Slack does is a workaround around system limitations. But the limitations are there, and they need the "copy" event to make their hack work end to end.
- maple3142 7y ago> Except that your example is only “great” because Slack is reimplementing text input- another thing that maybe should just be handled by the system. But this won't allow you to have a consistent emoji across platforms, neither do server-specific emoji. Besides, I found typing :emojiname: is much easier than finding emoji in emoji keyboard.