• Álvaro González (github)

    Front end developers have a weird obsession with preventing users from comfortably reading small pieces of information. So much effort and money has been put into the task of breaking good enough native widgets to add (tiny) scrollbars and ellipsis.

  • A.N.O Nymos (unregistered)

    That one with the - sign problem is not a missing nbsp, the problem is that the column is too small. There are no spaces in the numbers (just look at -$50,47). In other words if there's ever a transaction >= $1000, the $ would also be on the previous line, and if the number gets too large (5 digits or more), the number itself might be broken up.

  • (nodebb)

    Yes No

  • (nodebb)

    I can't recall ever seeing a drop-down box that had separate scrolling for each individual row. It looks like, instead of using a normal <select> control (with <option> elements), they just made their own custom drop-down selection using a <div> or similar for each row with overflow CSS allowing scrolling.

    It's really hard to fathom just wtf they thinking or how they went about testing this (assuming they did.)

  • (nodebb)

    Rules of programming, in any language:

    1. Don't bother learning about well-established library functions. Just write your own - especially for dates!
    2. Don't bother to let users know what the error is. The probably wouldn't understand it anyway.
    3. Make sure your application does A task - not necessarily the one it's supposed to.
    4. Make sure to give users fine granular control using undocumented option flags.
  • Scragar (unregistered) in reply to gordonfish

    Firefox used to display a horizontal scroll bar if the contents of a select box was wider than the selectbox width. Then they made it so the selectbox dropdown resizes to match the contents if bigger and you only saw the scroll if it was wider than the remaining screen size(so it would happen more often with them on the right of the page). Now I think standard practice for browsers is to just wrap the text first, extend the options width if required, and if it's still too long we just cut it off.

    No browser as far as I'm aware has ever made each option have it's own scroll bar. Even IE's developers weren't that evil.

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to Scragar

    Even IE's developers weren't that evil.

    Please, don't suggest them...

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to Melissa U

    Yes. No. Cancel that. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFlFIG22Y9E&t=160s

  • Hmmmm 🤨 (unregistered)

    Making under $1000 a month and shelling out $662 for dinners? We'll let that slide. But $12 to buy a command prompt??!?! Back in my day they cost $1.20!!

  • A Human (unregistered)

    Please tell me you can actually run doom on a bunch of scrollbars.

    Otherwise I'd get stuck in a carousel of agony.

  • Alorna Broadville (unregistered)

    The first one and the last two show just how much worse UX has actually gotten over time. That level of failure would've not been possible without deliberate malice when plain-old HTML was the norm, but now there's a whole new level (depth) of job-security-incompetence in the world of frontend, where bottom-feeders need to be constantly breaking things and then repeatedly fixing them in new stupid ways to justify their continued employment.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Scragar

    Even IE's developers weren't that evil.

    They introduced the option of using <marquee>, so speak not of evil...

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to dkf

    Hey... I remember <marquee> fondly. In an age before javascript and Flash it was an easy way to get something cool looking onto the page. <bgsound> though, now that's truly evil.

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to 516052

    And let's not forget about <blink>, something that you now need JS for, if you really need it (which actually means "your boss wants it").

  • A Human (unregistered) in reply to Officer Johnny Holzkopf

    Can't it be done with css?

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