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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by chrisweekly on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:04PM (#22435860)
Desktop support is also almost moot, though, right? What's the "desktop with virtual keyboard" use case?
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by oldmanhorton on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:42PM (#22436319)
Touchscreen pcs? Surface Pro users in particular would see this.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by alkonaut on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:13PM (#22438519)
The fallback is a regular touch keyboard with both letters and digits. On a screen larger than a phone I think I’d prefer that to a numeric pad.
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