They often rely on CMS modules and plugins to take care of input like this and those programmers didn’t want to have to parse and sanitize the input, they just had to control it completely and fageddubautit
The thing about this that really absconds with my ovine is that moronic webdevs insist on reinventing the wheel for these input fields in a manner that is inevitably both disrespectful of your screen DPI and/or aspect ratio and also fail to correctly or competently implement shortcuts or keyboard functionality – or more often, don’t even bother to do so at all – not to mention any of the user’s potential accessibility tools. Because web form controls for all of these input fields already exist.
Earth to front end developers: You don’t need to do a halfassed job of building a drop down menu box using 3.7 megabytes of jquery and and CSS plus three application frameworks on every page load. Just put that shit in a <select> and let the browser do it for you. Knock it off already.
HTML already includes a perfectly good date picker tag, drop down menus, spinners, radio buttons, and checkboxes.
And if you do insist on reinventing the wheel, if the wheel you’re reinventing happens to be a non-searchable drop down menu that doesn’t even allow me to type to snap to the first letter of what I’m looking for, let alone the entire target value, I’m afraid I’m going to have to hunt you down and stick your keyboard somewhere you probably don’t want it stuck.
Things that I wish web interface devs would just let me type, for God’s sake:
Just validate the input after I type it in. Don’t make me scroll through 50 different states or 100 different years.
They often rely on CMS modules and plugins to take care of input like this and those programmers didn’t want to have to parse and sanitize the input, they just had to control it completely and fageddubautit
Edit: yeah I was once one of them …
Looking at you iphone. The little price is right scroller was cute the first time but has been a pain ever since.
just wondering, do you live in the United Arab Emirates?
Just be thankful they don’t make you scroll to your phone number
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United Kingdom
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Missed the click target.
Now I live in the UAE.
I’m back in the U.S.S.R
You don’t know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S
Back in the U.S.S.R
The thing about this that really absconds with my ovine is that moronic webdevs insist on reinventing the wheel for these input fields in a manner that is inevitably both disrespectful of your screen DPI and/or aspect ratio and also fail to correctly or competently implement shortcuts or keyboard functionality – or more often, don’t even bother to do so at all – not to mention any of the user’s potential accessibility tools. Because web form controls for all of these input fields already exist.
Earth to front end developers: You don’t need to do a halfassed job of building a drop down menu box using 3.7 megabytes of jquery and and CSS plus three application frameworks on every page load. Just put that shit in a
<select>and let the browser do it for you. Knock it off already.HTML already includes a perfectly good date picker tag, drop down menus, spinners, radio buttons, and checkboxes.
And if you do insist on reinventing the wheel, if the wheel you’re reinventing happens to be a non-searchable drop down menu that doesn’t even allow me to type to snap to the first letter of what I’m looking for, let alone the entire target value, I’m afraid I’m going to have to hunt you down and stick your keyboard somewhere you probably don’t want it stuck.
Properly implemented selection boxes do let you do this and then hit space when you are done typing.
Properly implemented being the key element.