Filling in a form is never delightful. It’s a tedious interruption in my flow. Just let me get past it with minimum cognitive load.
Would a normal person try to do that or would they just reload the page and start the whole form over again? Or would they just leave the website and never come back?
Many people just abandon their intended action when simple usability things are not right because your sales experience is sorta a "first impressions" thing (bit of a generalization but yea).
It had so many bugs when I tried it, and it has at least as many now.
For example: in the first demo, type the card number 1234567812345678. Works nice, eh? Now try again with 1233567... oh wait, let me go back and change that second "3" to a "4". And it's broken.
pulling up a numeric keyboard to enter a cc number is helpful, but also lacks a space key, making it hard to viaually verify a 4-4-4-4 pattern. yes, there's luhn, but that doesnt work until you're finished (same problem with formatting post-entry, eg onblur/onchange)
for entering a date, most numeric keypads lack /.
thankfully, phone entry is mostly covered with type=tel. which is numeric + symbols, so i end up using it as a hack for some other numeric types, as suggested on SO.
i would rather just type big numbers instead of fumble with symbols or tiny keys on a full keyboard for numeric inputs.
So much work is put into making various pointless design gimmicks recognize whether they're displayed on mobile vs. desktop. Why not recognize whether the user is on mobile (and thus likely has crappy keyboard), and conditionally enable those convenience factors?
Also, I feel this problem was solved 20+ years ago with CD-key entry boxes. You'd have a row of text boxes, 2-4 characters long each, but they behaved as if they were one large text field - the focus correctly jumped between the boxes as you wrote or erased stuff.
Unless you missed one character and then everything was misaligned and it wouldn't let you just insert one in the middle so you had to delete everything after that point and start over. Meanwhile, your pirate friends were already at level 10.
No, that's just the default iOS keyboard, meaning the problem is Apple. My Pixel's keyboard sensibly has a space button, as do most 3rd party keyboards on iOS.
to make the right one pop up in ios you have to do stuff like pattern=[0-9]*, but that becomes restrictive, too.
http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboar...