<story><title>You probably don’t need input type=“number”</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/you-probably-dont-need-input-typenumber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Ugh. Can I just say that using the scroll wheel for &lt;i&gt;anything but scrolling&lt;/i&gt; is one of my all-time UX pet peeves. Probably #1, in fact.&lt;p&gt;Above all, Google Maps repurposing it for zoom. Like, I&amp;#x27;m scrolling down a webpage, there&amp;#x27;s an embedded Google Map, and suddenly it stops scrolling and starts zooming in by orders of magnitude and it&amp;#x27;s just a WTF moment... you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;breaking the web&lt;/i&gt;. Nobody wants to zoom by orders of magnitude like that. Nobody asked you to stop scrolling the page. It&amp;#x27;s beyond useless.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, this is doing the same for numbers, at least in Safari. Again, &lt;i&gt;nobody wants that&lt;/i&gt;. I can&amp;#x27;t think of any good reason ever to have that as a &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot;. I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine what goes through the minds of people who think that&amp;#x27;s a good idea. Worst. Design. Decision. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mehrdadn</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so confused. I&amp;#x27;ve never wanted the scroll wheel to do anything but zooming on Google Maps. It&amp;#x27;s not like there is anywhere to scroll to in the first place?</text></comment>
<story><title>You probably don’t need input type=“number”</title><url>http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/you-probably-dont-need-input-typenumber/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>crazygringo</author><text>Ugh. Can I just say that using the scroll wheel for &lt;i&gt;anything but scrolling&lt;/i&gt; is one of my all-time UX pet peeves. Probably #1, in fact.&lt;p&gt;Above all, Google Maps repurposing it for zoom. Like, I&amp;#x27;m scrolling down a webpage, there&amp;#x27;s an embedded Google Map, and suddenly it stops scrolling and starts zooming in by orders of magnitude and it&amp;#x27;s just a WTF moment... you&amp;#x27;re &lt;i&gt;breaking the web&lt;/i&gt;. Nobody wants to zoom by orders of magnitude like that. Nobody asked you to stop scrolling the page. It&amp;#x27;s beyond useless.&lt;p&gt;Likewise, this is doing the same for numbers, at least in Safari. Again, &lt;i&gt;nobody wants that&lt;/i&gt;. I can&amp;#x27;t think of any good reason ever to have that as a &amp;quot;feature&amp;quot;. I can&amp;#x27;t even imagine what goes through the minds of people who think that&amp;#x27;s a good idea. Worst. Design. Decision. Ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>syncsynchalt</author><text>In my experience Google Maps fixed embedded maps about a year ago, it requires command-scroll to zoom and otherwise scrolls normally.  I didn&amp;#x27;t realize that might be browser-specific, I&amp;#x27;m using macos + safari.</text></comment>