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Do we finally have a standard solution for input masks ? 25 years ago I was struggling with this while my fellow desktop app devs had good input masks in their widgets, with easy to use pattern syntax. That would be embarrassing if not.



Every other website or program now uses a different set of UI patterns. We are not advancing, we are regressing.

I do miss when textboxes had inset and buttons had outset borders.




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