1. Write a 280 char tweet w/spaces
2. ctrl+a, ctrl+x
3. ctrl+v
4. Tweet becomes 283 to 284 chars
This is consistently reproducible for me in FF.
In the linked thread, a guy who worked on this feature explains why it's good that undo, cut, copy, etc. don't work correctly
https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/891487984465268737 …
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If you've ever wondered why I sometimes have tweets with extra spaces in them, I habitually copy as I type as a "backup". When the web app blows up, I paste to "restore" but twitter breaks this. I remove the extra spaces I can spot, but it's hard to spot if it's at a line break
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The previous tweet was going to end with an emoji, but inserting the emoji took me from 1 char remaining to -3. Did twitter switch from characters to bytes and switch to the gauge so that it would be less obvious that they switched?

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I ran into one UI issue that's arguably not a bug and three bugs while typing these tweets. How many person-years would you guess went into this text box? In the linked thread, the guy said he worked on this for years and it doesn't sound like he was the only one.
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I wouldn't be so quick to blame Twitter. Many bugs wrt spacing and c&p ended up being browser bugs when we dug in (cf https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=318925 …)
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HTML spacing rules are complex. Any editing surface that treats the HTML as the "data model" is vulnerable to this issue. It's a problem for both native and JS impls.
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IMO this isn't a valid excuse for a bad user experience even if it's a valid reason. From the user's standpoint, the app owns the entire experience. Every company I've worked for has deployed numerous workarounds for hardware bugs instead of saying "yolo, it's hardware's fault".
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It's not uncommon for cloud vendors to get hardware firmware in order to fix bugs, but twitter can't fix bugs in open source browsers? It might be the right business decision to ship an app where text input is broken but, IMO, that doesn't somehow make it the browser's fault.
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