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Bad UI Battles

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For intentionally bad and silly user interfaces.

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[–] davegoesthedistance 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not bad! It would take some extra work, but might be cool to allow backspace but force the user to type over what they've already typed.

[–] spartanatreyu 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the obvious way would be to draw the text on a canvas, but you wouldn't get sharp text then.

I could nest a span with a negative translate or negative margin to overlap. It could be worth it to print each letter in a css grid (which would work since all the text is monospace) making it super easy to overlap text.

There may be a more hacky/elegant solution which would be to use weird unicode to overlap characters, but I'm not sure how feasible it would be.