A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)
jllyhill · 71 points · 11 comments · 4 days ago · Open original
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SAsaghm2 hours ago
> So the engineers came up with a power-user shortcut… and since the Shift was a natural counterpart in the Caps Lock world, it could also do the same here!
> The solution: you could hold Shift and press the arrow/numeric key to quickly reverse its current mode.
One person's "ingenious" is another's "confusing due to lack of clarity". If I hit some keys that weren't numlock and they caused my numpad to behave differently than the mode I expected, I would not think "oh wow that's so clever", I would be confused about what happened and probably not understand how to use that mechanism from observing the surprising behavior.
FRfrumiousircyesterday
I guess it was a figma of our imagination.
SPSpringtimeyesterday
It's interesting in retrospect that the keyboard of the first Macintosh was a very deliberate 60% layout, given how popular that size has become over the past 15 years among enthusiasts (albeit now augmented by fully customizable secondary layers so arrow keys/etc are still possible).
WRwritten-beyond16 hours ago
This is the first time, in my entire life I have experienced a website overriding pinch to zoom. I couldn't pinch to zoom, just on top of pictures, which would expand the image then zoom into it.
Why would the author do that, very frustrating.
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> So the engineers came up with a power-user shortcut… and since the Shift was a natural counterpart in the Caps Lock world, it could also do the same here! > The solution: you could hold Shift and press the arrow/numeric key to quickly reverse its current mode. One person's "ingenious" is another's "confusing due to lack of clarity". If I hit some keys that weren't numlock and they caused my numpad to behave differently than the mode I expected, I would not think "oh wow that's so clever", I would be confused about what happened and probably not understand how to use that mechanism from observing the surprising behavior.
I guess it was a figma of our imagination.
It's interesting in retrospect that the keyboard of the first Macintosh was a very deliberate 60% layout, given how popular that size has become over the past 15 years among enthusiasts (albeit now augmented by fully customizable secondary layers so arrow keys/etc are still possible).
This is the first time, in my entire life I have experienced a website overriding pinch to zoom. I couldn't pinch to zoom, just on top of pictures, which would expand the image then zoom into it. Why would the author do that, very frustrating.
loved it!