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Academics really ought to know better than using proprietary web forms for research. If Big Tech haven't already integrated their benighted Artificial Stupidity tech into them, they will soon. Undermining the validity of any data gathering done with them, and thus the reliability of any results researchers report based on them.

Universities and other formal research institutions need to be hosting Free Code survey tools (there are a few).

@jackyan https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/116960504471856981

#research #WebForms

Academics really ought to know better than using proprietary web forms for research. If Big Tech haven't already integrated their benighted Artificial Stupidity tech into them, they will soon. Undermining the validity of any data gathering done with them, and thus the reliability of any results researchers report based on them.

Universities and other formal research institutions need to be hosting Free Code survey tools (there are a few).

@jackyan https://mastodon.social/@jackyan/116960504471856981

#research #WebForms

👾 Oh, look! A library that turns your web forms into squishy jello. 🙄 Because who needs usability when you can have soft-body physics and pointless bloat? Now your users can admire the wobbly buttons while they fail to complete a form. 🍇🔄
https://jelly-ui.com/ #quirkydesign #webforms #usabilityfail #softbodyphysics #pointlessbloat #HackerNews #ngated

👾 Oh, look! A library that turns your web forms into squishy jello. 🙄 Because who needs usability when you can have soft-body physics and pointless bloat? Now your users can admire the wobbly buttons while they fail to complete a form. 🍇🔄
https://jelly-ui.com/ #quirkydesign #webforms #usabilityfail #softbodyphysics #pointlessbloat #HackerNews #ngated

JFC. Calm down. I'm getting there.

#UX #Usability #UI #Design #FrontEnd #Development #WebForms #FormValidation

JFC. Calm down. I'm getting there.

#UX #Usability #UI #Design #FrontEnd #Development #WebForms #FormValidation

📝 Use European webforms:

👉 NextCloud Forms / Murena Forms
👉 Framaforms
👉 Cryptpad

What are you using/recommending? Maybe I can learn something and add it to the list?

#digitalSovereignty #webforms #did #dutgemacht #DSCAdvice

More DSC advice: 🔗 https://folkdata.se/en/digital-sovereignty/

📝 Use European webforms:

👉 NextCloud Forms / Murena Forms
👉 Framaforms
👉 Cryptpad

What are you using/recommending? Maybe I can learn something and add it to the list?

#digitalSovereignty #webforms #did #dutgemacht #DSCAdvice

More DSC advice: 🔗 https://folkdata.se/en/digital-sovereignty/

Just a reminder that every developer who disables paste on a web form can die a horrible painful death. ESPECIALLY on every field on a form with many inputs. That is all.

#Development #Code #WebForms

Just a reminder that every developer who disables paste on a web form can die a horrible painful death. ESPECIALLY on every field on a form with many inputs. That is all.

#Development #Code #WebForms

🤖 Oh no, AI agents are getting pricier, but fear not—Toby Ord brilliantly distracts us with... a crash course in web form editing! 📝 Because who doesn't love a detour through the riveting world of contact forms while fretting over AI costs? 🙄
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents #AIcosts #WebForms #TobyOrd #TechNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

🤖 Oh no, AI agents are getting pricier, but fear not—Toby Ord brilliantly distracts us with... a crash course in web form editing! 📝 Because who doesn't love a detour through the riveting world of contact forms while fretting over AI costs? 🙄
https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents #AIcosts #WebForms #TobyOrd #TechNews #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Modernizing .NET Part 20! 🏗️

Migrating legacy .aspx pages to .NET Core without a full rewrite.

✅ Zero ViewState overhead
✅ Keep existing .aspx URLs
✅ Modern API-driven UI

https://medium.com/@michael.kopt/%EF%B8%8F-modernizing-net-part-20-migrating-legacy-aspx-pages-to-asp-net-core-d855946c3db0
#dotnet #dotnetcore #aspnet #aspnetcore #csharp #webforms

Modernizing .NET Part 20! 🏗️

Migrating legacy .aspx pages to .NET Core without a full rewrite.

✅ Zero ViewState overhead
✅ Keep existing .aspx URLs
✅ Modern API-driven UI

https://medium.com/@michael.kopt/%EF%B8%8F-modernizing-net-part-20-migrating-legacy-aspx-pages-to-asp-net-core-d855946c3db0
#dotnet #dotnetcore #aspnet #aspnetcore #csharp #webforms

Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?

If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)

#Accessibility #A11y #WebForms #FrontEnd #Development

Informal poll about date inputs on website forms. What’s your preference?

If you have a disability and use assistive devices, I invite you to comment with your thoughts. (Any thoughts from anyone are also welcomed.)

#Accessibility #A11y #WebForms #FrontEnd #Development

Federal News Network: The hidden vulnerability: Why legacy government web forms demand urgent attention. “Government agencies face a security challenge hiding in plain sight: outdated web forms that collect citizen data through systems built years — sometimes decades — ago. While agencies invest heavily in perimeter security and advanced threat detection, many continue using legacy forms […]

Federal News Network: The hidden vulnerability: Why legacy government web forms demand urgent attention. “Government agencies face a security challenge hiding in plain sight: outdated web forms that collect citizen data through systems built years — sometimes decades — ago. While agencies invest heavily in perimeter security and advanced threat detection, many continue using legacy forms […]

🚀 Tired of losing your progress on long web forms? Our new Chrome Extension automatically saves your input locally and restores it when you refresh the page. Built with privacy in mind, it works seamlessly across all websites without server-side integration. Perfect for online applications, admin dashboards, and more! 📝✨

Have you ever lost form data unexpectedly?

#WebForms #ChromeExtension #UserExperience #AutoSave #PrivacyFirst

Not just the modal. Or the tab. Or the window. The ENTIRE BROWSER.

Thanks for assuming I was done with the internet. And for conflating a statement with a question, just to pour salt in the wound.

#UX #WebForms #Copywriting #Grammar #WebDesign #HeyKidsDoNotDoThis

Not just the modal. Or the tab. Or the window. The ENTIRE BROWSER.

Thanks for assuming I was done with the internet. And for conflating a statement with a question, just to pour salt in the wound.

#UX #WebForms #Copywriting #Grammar #WebDesign #HeyKidsDoNotDoThis

🥴 Oh no! Novo Nordisk's big pharma #blunder has everyone scrambling to enable #JavaScript and bake #cookies. 🍪 Maybe they should focus less on web forms and more on their expiring patents, eh? 🤡
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake #NovoNordisk #PharmaPatents #WebForms #HackerNews #ngated

🥴 Oh no! Novo Nordisk's big pharma #blunder has everyone scrambling to enable #JavaScript and bake #cookies. 🍪 Maybe they should focus less on web forms and more on their expiring patents, eh? 🤡
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/novo-nordisk-s-canadian-mistake #NovoNordisk #PharmaPatents #WebForms #HackerNews #ngated

Today, @liberaforms released a new version including our work on its Dockerfile.

As explained on the project blog:

"The Dockerfile has been improved in many ways, but most notably, it now uses a multi-stage build. As a result, the final image now only includes the runtime dependencies, and not the development ones any more. This led to a significant size reduction of ~43%! It also helps reduce the attack surface as development tools that can be used to craft exploits, such as gcc, are now absent from the final image."

https://blog.liberaforms.org/2025/09/28/version-450/

This is a first step of a global enhancement regarding the containerisation of LiberaForms. Our next objective is to remove the use of the root account for running the service.

#OpenSource #FOSS #Forms #WebForms #Web #WebApp #Security #OCI #Docker #Container #ContainerImages

Today, @liberaforms released a new version including our work on its Dockerfile.

As explained on the project blog:

"The Dockerfile has been improved in many ways, but most notably, it now uses a multi-stage build. As a result, the final image now only includes the runtime dependencies, and not the development ones any more. This led to a significant size reduction of ~43%! It also helps reduce the attack surface as development tools that can be used to craft exploits, such as gcc, are now absent from the final image."

https://blog.liberaforms.org/2025/09/28/version-450/

This is a first step of a global enhancement regarding the containerisation of LiberaForms. Our next objective is to remove the use of the root account for running the service.

#OpenSource #FOSS #Forms #WebForms #Web #WebApp #Security #OCI #Docker #Container #ContainerImages

If you want to find a ton of businesses who have failed to secure their web forms, leaving themselves open to spammers and scammers, just search this in Google:

bc1qel7v90m26e98a2mlgka5t2087wxk733ssv6u7h

How embarrassing.

#security #webforms

If you want to find a ton of businesses who have failed to secure their web forms, leaving themselves open to spammers and scammers, just search this in Google:

bc1qel7v90m26e98a2mlgka5t2087wxk733ssv6u7h

How embarrassing.

#security #webforms

Dear web form creators!When you provide a multiline <textarea> input field please do not squash my fondly edited paragraphs into one big mess of a single line.Why this is so awful you ask?- Bullet point lists get completely obliterated.- I intentionally split my text into meaningful paragraphs and you remove that context.- It’s extra dumb if you don’t add single spaces between those joined linesKind regardsYour users

#html #textarea #webdesign #webform #webforms

Curious what y’all call this type of form input. I have my own name (won’t share just yet as to not taint the answers), but I rarely find that everyone uses the same name for it.

While I’m primarily targeting UI designers/developers, I’m happy to see answers from anyone.

What do y’all call it?

#UI #Design #Development #FrontEnd #WebDesign #WebForms #HTML

Curious what y’all call this type of form input. I have my own name (won’t share just yet as to not taint the answers), but I rarely find that everyone uses the same name for it.

While I’m primarily targeting UI designers/developers, I’m happy to see answers from anyone.

What do y’all call it?

#UI #Design #Development #FrontEnd #WebDesign #WebForms #HTML

3 simple CSS tricks for added form validation customization.

https://blocksedit.com/content-code/modern-form-validation/

#css #html #webforms

I've got some multi-step forms in vue, so proceeding to the next step is done via JS, not a real page navigation.
So I need to reset the focus to the top of the form. Following your book's chapter "Move Focus" I have given my entire form a tabindex="-1" and this seems to work.
Would you recommend some extra feedback that something that feels like navigation has just happened? Something along aria-live="polite"?

@matuzo #accessibility #webforms

Hey, @ProPublica. I took one of your surveys, because I love you. And I'm sharing this with you, because I love you.

You have a number of these questions that should use radio buttons (single answer) but instead use checkboxes (multiple answers).

Talk with your devs. They can fix this for you.

#UI #Development #Coding #WebDev #WebForms

Hey, @ProPublica. I took one of your surveys, because I love you. And I'm sharing this with you, because I love you.

You have a number of these questions that should use radio buttons (single answer) but instead use checkboxes (multiple answers).

Talk with your devs. They can fix this for you.

#UI #Development #Coding #WebDev #WebForms

#Webforms are often used by organisations as the initial step in getting problems reported.

This is part of the #ComplaintProcess, and #DisputeResolutionProcess. And are a #Governance matter.

And yet repeatedly I send the webform back to organisations with obligations around #Safety, such as #AgedCareFacilities and #LocalGovernment, and they don't send a copy of what they have received back to me.

How long have webforms been misused like this?
The internet seems to have muddled minds.

#Webforms are often used by organisations as the initial step in getting problems reported.

This is part of the #ComplaintProcess, and #DisputeResolutionProcess. And are a #Governance matter.

And yet repeatedly I send the webform back to organisations with obligations around #Safety, such as #AgedCareFacilities and #LocalGovernment, and they don't send a copy of what they have received back to me.

How long have webforms been misused like this?
The internet seems to have muddled minds.

Because so many web forms are built with bugs and oddities, my trust in their integrity is low. My process looks like this:

1. Enter information
2. Select/copy long-form text
3. Submit form

If there’s more than one long-form input I’ll copy/paste from both into a text document before submitting.

Anyone else have this relationship with forms? It may just be my OCD.

#WebForms #Technology #OCD

Because so many web forms are built with bugs and oddities, my trust in their integrity is low. My process looks like this:

1. Enter information
2. Select/copy long-form text
3. Submit form

If there’s more than one long-form input I’ll copy/paste from both into a text document before submitting.

Anyone else have this relationship with forms? It may just be my OCD.

#WebForms #Technology #OCD

In 2023 why do websites with forms still have stupidly short session timeouts that mean you lose everything if you get interrupted part way through... Just give me 24 hours, storage costs are negligible. #WebForms

Anyone else feel like this? I have OCD, so it’s probably worse for folks like me. But, still. I’m curious if anyone else gives pause before using that return key.

#UX #UI #WebForms

Anyone else feel like this? I have OCD, so it’s probably worse for folks like me. But, still. I’m curious if anyone else gives pause before using that return key.

#UX #UI #WebForms

Have people looked at #aspnet #WebForms lately?

In all honesty, the experience is nice and makes me wonder why this continues to be banned to shadow realm of .NET, known as Full Framework.

If you want a straightforward DX then this works.

Additionally, it doesn’t require a web socket or heavy Wasm payload to work (#Blazor). Finally if you hate writing #JavaScript, this adds interactions without the need for scripts. Given JS payload sizes, what’s a little ViewState payload?

#dotnet