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Web developer classic: use Javascript to replace the native, working, internationally supported standard inputs with a different input mechanism that doesn't wo

by pjc50 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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.
- firmretention 3mo 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.
  - Affric 3mo ago
    These are all great nominations. Crazy to add complexity like this.
  - dreamcompiler 3mo ago
    Likewise usurping Ctrl-F with their own shitty global search function rather than the perfectly good page search provided by the browser. Looking at you, Confluence.
    - jandrese 3mo ago
      Usually Ctrl-F still works for me, but / almost always gets consumed by the stupid search that never works properly. But then that's usually because you're on a site with infinite scroll so even the Ctrl-F search is going to be limited, even if you are in the correct thread. One thing is really dislike about modern UI design is where you see a headline that seems kinda interesting but you don't click on it right away. Come back a bit later and it's just gone. There was some A/B testing on the headline and now it's completely different, probably now all clickbaity so I won't be inclined to check it out.
Ajedi32 3mo ago
I've seen cases where it was done well, but unless you're willing to invest great engineering effort into making sure it's done well, the built-in version (which already has had a lot of engineering effort put into it) is almost always going to be better.

by pjc50 3mo ago

khalic 3mo 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 3mo 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.
firmretention 3mo 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.
- Affric 3mo ago
  These are all great nominations. Crazy to add complexity like this.
- dreamcompiler 3mo ago
  Likewise usurping Ctrl-F with their own shitty global search function rather than the perfectly good page search provided by the browser. Looking at you, Confluence.
  - jandrese 3mo ago
    Usually Ctrl-F still works for me, but / almost always gets consumed by the stupid search that never works properly. But then that's usually because you're on a site with infinite scroll so even the Ctrl-F search is going to be limited, even if you are in the correct thread. One thing is really dislike about modern UI design is where you see a headline that seems kinda interesting but you don't click on it right away. Come back a bit later and it's just gone. There was some A/B testing on the headline and now it's completely different, probably now all clickbaity so I won't be inclined to check it out.

Ajedi32 3mo ago

I've seen cases where it was done well, but unless you're willing to invest great engineering effort into making sure it's done well, the built-in version (which already has had a lot of engineering effort put into it) is almost always going to be better.