> Forms that validate on focus lost, instead of submission.
replyNot always positive. The form briefly loses focus for two seconds (while you open your password manager or whatever) and you are shouted at to “PLEASE ENTER A VALID USERNAME” in red.
Sometimes I see it complaining _on every keypress_. Certainly annoying, but much better than the old "invalid field" red text at the very bottom, leaving you to scroll back up and guess what's wrong.
replyI appreciate this balanced take! Let's hope one day we'll get the best of today's and yesterday's era.
replyThere was a brief moment in history where we had the best of both worlds.
replyI grew up with Windows XP. We had most of these (except the titlebar buttons — although on second thought some custom Windows Media Player skins did have that, haha).
We all carried USB sticks around. So you always had your files with you. The computer itself was interchangeable, for the most part. (Which also led to my interest in portable apps.)
> Ctrl+P menus to fuzzy-search all actions and settings
replyWasn’t that in Emacs for decades?
Probably! To quote William Gibson, "the future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed". I'm sure you can find some of these features all the way back in The Mother of All Demos, the difference now is that they're more common.
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