Re:iPhones and action discoverability
by vineyardmike on Monday September 26, 2022 @03:22AM
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> The screen recording of the calculator app seems to just have "C", which I would assume deletes the whole number, not one digit. That's not the same action
Correct. That’s how “irl” calculators work. You can retype the number easy enough, its not going to be more than a few characters long, but technically yes its a different action. To my point, you can still achieve your goal, through more discoverable means, but it may be more clunky. They should also have a regular backspace here imo.
Re:iPhones and action discoverability
by yencabulator on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:47PM
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That's a vestige of history, and not some innate property of a calculator. I went through school with a calculator that had cursor positioning, insert mode, and so on, and mine was definitely not the fanciest in class.
The idea of holding a computer calculator app to exactly the limits of a historical four function calculator is skeuomorphism at some of its worst.
The screen recording of the calculator app seems to just have "C", which I would assume deletes the whole number, not one digit. That's not the same action.
The Android calculator has a backspace button, that removes a single digit. It's clearly recognizable as a backspace, just like on any other on-screen keyboard input.