Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters in the password field

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by dkonofalski on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:37PM (#21401644)

That doesn't seem like the root cause to me. It sounds like they have events set up for the UI prior to login which doesn't really make sense. The regression in Catalina may have exposed it but the regression is not the cause of this, as far as I can tell.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by shawnz on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:48PM (#21403168)

While you may not believe they made the best design choice, there's nothing functionally wrong about the choice they made. According to the docs, their method should work just the same. So I don't think it's fair to say that's the cause of the bug.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by dkonofalski on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @07:18PM (#21404073)

>nothing functionally wrong about the choice they made

Sure there is... The app would capture those as shortcuts instead of as user input. You know...exactly what's happening here. If this interferes with writing tweets also then that should be easy to figure out.

As I said above, I'm not saying it's not because of the regression but it's more likely to me that Twitter messed it up. Otherwise, why is no other app experiencing this issue if it was done "according to the docs".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by shawnz on Friday November 01, 2019 @06:03PM (#21424158)

> Otherwise, why is no other app experiencing this issue if it was done "according to the docs".

Well, like you say, it's not common to use shortcut keys without modifiers right? So it doesn't seem that surprising to me that nobody noticed the regression.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by userbinator on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:38PM (#21404892)

At (the old) Microsoft, that would absolutely be considered a regression --- code that used to work no longer does.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031224-00/?p=41...

As Linus Torvalds would say, "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!"

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Twitter for Mac is incapable of accepting certain letters... by giovannibajo1 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:05AM (#21406588)

The application is brand new, and is built on a brand new macOS API. Nobody broke anything. The point is whether the bug is due to Twitter’s usage of the APIs, or the APIs themselves.

[ Parent | on HN ]