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To be fair though, that form has like 5-6 thousand hidden inputs.
by film42 13y ago
To be fair though, that form has like 5-6 thousand hidden inputs.
- Pxtl 13y agoYeah. I get that it's a problem that iOS7 safari crashes with a lot of inputs, but that's an insanely-huge number of inputs. This is kind of an edge-case and you should probably avoid doing that in your web-pages. A hundred-ish inputs per-page is probably a better idea.
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- Samuel_Michon 13y agoParent suggested an example with hundred inputs. You made one with several hundred inputs, and even that one didn’t crash Safari. It would’ve been better to simply concede that it’s an edge case. Putting thousands of inputs on a form is bad web development.
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- Samuel_Michon 13y agoRight, Apple never fixes bugs and HN doesn’t understand demonstrations. People continue to disappoint, don’t they. You found a bug. Kudos, but one of the reasons we haven’t heard about it before is because most people won’t encounter forms with thousands of inputs. It would’ve been helpful if you had filed a Radar, then the only party who can actually fix it would know about it. You chose not to. Instead, you made a misleading post to HN. And as you may well have noticed, HN readers don’t like to be tricked.
- Bootvis 13y agoPresenting such a form to users is probably a bad idea. I think we can agree on that, even for surveys with many conditionally visible elements. However, a malicious site can also create such a form and simulate a tap using JavaScript to crash safari. I hope we can also agree that that is bad. So OP has a point here.
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- racl101 13y agoYah, if you've got that many fields in your form you're doing it wrong and you need psychiatric help.