Or use basically *any* accessibility feature or try to input text in a different language. Please don't reinvent browser features in JS; you're going to miss on a *lot* of engineering work put into making stuff work for everyone.https://twitter.com/anatudor/status/945370849871265793 …
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Replying to @ManishEarth
The thing people miss is that the web has a design principle that things like <input> and <select> delegate to the OS controls. This is a feature not a bug! Flash tried to unify and while the controls were pretty enough and consistent, the experience sucked.
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Replying to @wycats @ManishEarth
Accessibility is just a special case of "paste works, even when paste means long-press for an OS specified amount of time and select 'paste' from an OS supplied menu". Nobody can make <select> correctly work the way it should even when iOS redesigns or when mobile gets popular.
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Replying to @wycats @ManishEarth
A lot of people think of this as a huge design flaw in the fabric of the web, but those people are wrong. One of the major reasons that the web was seen as superior *even in Flex's heyday* is that it got this right. Flex was full of inconsistencies with OS behavior and it showed
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And this was despite it being built by a massive company and the web being relatively stable and unfragmented (IE, Firefox and a couple of Desktop OSes to support) compared to today.
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