alt Hacker NewsWeb 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)
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Ajedi32 • today at 2:09 PM
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.
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