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Regarding 2. That's what doctor's receptionists do all day. They must be doing it for some reason. I guess old people don't like annoying web forms? I'm old and

Regarding 2. That's what doctor's receptionists do all day. They must be doing it for some reason. I guess old people don't like annoying web forms? I'm old and I don't. For example, I've formed a habit of opening terms and conditions links in another tab because I've experienced forms that clear your data when you click them directly then try to to "back" afterwards. But just a few weeks ago, I did that and when I returned to submit the form, it was gone with a message telling me I'd opened another tab and had better close them all and start again. Web forms are full of aggravating problems like that. Web developers have had 30 years to get this right and they still can't, so I don't have much hope for the next 30 years. On the other hand, a whole new technology seems more promising.

otabdeveloper4 6y ago
Web forms work spectacularly well when you stick to, well, actual web HTML form elements. The problem is frontend developers reinventing their own widgets and protocols because "moronic SPA reasons".
- perl4ever 6y ago
  One little thing that aggravates me is that you can't type a sequence of letters and have a drop down menu go to the appropriate choice most of the time. Like, I can type "N" and it will select the first choice beginning with "N", but I can't type "New" and go to the first one beginning with "New". This functionality was standard on the Macintosh maybe 30+ years ago, but I feel like 80% of the time on the web, it isn't.