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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

One time I did this thing with an internal calibration program where the user had to type floats into a text box. I set it up so that every key stroke was validated so that the string in the box had to parse as a valid number within the assigned range at all intermediate steps.

Everyone hated that.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Add automatic normalization to the box (you know, you type "05" and it drops the leading zero, you type "0.70" and it drops the trailing zero, etc.) and it often gets completely impossible to write anything valid. Some banking apps do something similar. :-)