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Just Let Me Write Digits

https://gendx.dev/blog/2026/07/13/input-digits.html
40•brandon_bot•5h ago

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kleiba2•1h ago
Reading this makes me feel like we have not learned any lessons at all in software engineering and UI design since the 1980s.
bux93•44m ago
IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Someone•28m ago
Maybe, but I’ve searched for it many times out of curiosity, but have never managed to locate it online, and wouldn’t know if paper copies exist.

From Wikipedia, I get to https://web.archive.org/web/20010204033600/http://publib.bou...

That has one live link: https://web.archive.org/web/20010107084700/http://publib.bou..., but from there, the trail runs dead.

Do you have a link?

kleiba2•14m ago
This one maybe? https://archive.org/details/ibm-saa-cua-basic-interface-desi...

PDF link in the box on the right.

pjc50•1h 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•18m 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•14m 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.

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Just Let Me Write Digits

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