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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by dmix on Thursday February 27, 2020 @02:02PM (#22436583)
That's one of the reasons I love Stripe's checkout being used everywhere and designers elsewhere basically copying them.

The internet is constantly getting better and I don't think we give that progress we've made in web design over the last few decades enough credit.

Just imagine how bad it used to be to just purchase a simple thing on an ecommerce site in the mid 2000s. Or remember what car websites used to look like vs what they look like now. Even newspaper websites like NYT are leaders with quality design.

It's easy to complain about those who still don't get it, but I feel like we've also made massive progress from the early wild-west days of the internet.

Still, I'm all for shaming those sites who still make inserting credit card numbers a pain in the ass.

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by BrianB on Thursday February 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#22438104)
> Or remember what car websites used to look like vs what they look like now.

lingscars.com ?

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by black_puppydog on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:15PM (#22439003)
> Made in the People's Republic of China (me, not the website... which was handcrafted by Ling, in the UK)

That's some real artisanal HTML right there. <3

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by frob on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:14PM (#22438530)
This might be the best website ever. It is over the top, but the theme is consistent. It reminds me of a myspace page, but if someone just wanted to be ridiculous, not unsightly.

Side note: anyone remember "I knows me some ugly myspace" from Ze Frank?

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by aspenmayer on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:56PM (#22439625)
Ze Frank. Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in quite some time. What an early internet vlog pioneer. I wondered what happened to him and looked him up a while back. Turns out he’s some bigwig at BuzzFeed so I guess he made out okay, but part of me misses that early enthusiasm and wonder of early internet 2.0.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by zimpenfish on Friday February 28, 2020 @08:00AM (#22442450)
He's recently restarted posting to his YouTube channel and they're definitely worth a watch.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by kwhitefoot on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:36AM (#22442339)
Brilliant. I almost wish I needed to lease a car just so I could put some business her way.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by admax88q on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:02PM (#22438438)
This site is amazing.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by roel_v on Thursday February 27, 2020 @06:47PM (#22439213)
I love this website. Can anyone from the UK explain what a 'mutti-car' is?
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by smcl on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:43AM (#22440782)
If it helps, I’m from the UK and I have no idea
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by JensRex on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:14AM (#22441306)
The only way that makes sense to me, is that "mutti" is a short form of "mutter" in german, which means mother. So a "mom car".

Disclaimer: I'm not english, and only half german.

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by OJFord on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:49PM (#22439580)
No more than I can explain 'electrodreams' or 'mackem sex', I'm afraid!
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by monadgonad on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:21AM (#22441330)
A mackem is someone from Sunderland.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by radiowave on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:53AM (#22441684)
And Sunderland is where the Nissan Qashqai is manufactured.
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by BrianB on Thursday February 27, 2020 @05:21PM (#22438585)
Did you check the source code yet?
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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by Rudisimo on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:27PM (#22471285)
That's a glorious Ling ASCII banner. But the video referenced in the commented YouTubePlayer widget is a first for me, and absolutely hilarious: [Drugos (Despacito) LINGsCARS website promo][1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/L2GlWaeNNoU

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Re:Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type ... by randomdude402 on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:27AM (#22440920)
It's interesting to see how many people take certain things in web design for granted. I'd be interested to know how many readers here were in the neighborhood of 10 or 12 years old in the mid 2000s.

We've reached a point where it seems like the amount of people who know react looks pretty close to the amount of people who know CSS. CSS wasn't even a thing when I built my first site, and now the phrase "web design" isn't even really in the vernacular today.

I'm not asking anybody to get off my lawn or anything, it's just interesting.

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