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.
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.