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Why is it that Chrome is the only browser that ignores inputmode="none" on inputs?

I want inputs in freshly opened <dialog> elements to not trigger the soft keyboard right away on (auto)focus, but instead when the user signals that they want to enter something, e.g. by a tap on it.

Safari works ✅
Firefox on Android works ✅
Samsung Internet works ✅
Chrome shows the soft keyboard ❌
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Do I really have to inject a dummy element with tabindex="0" before the first input for it to catch focus?

Interestingly, inputmode="none" seems to work here, when dynamically applied: https://codepen.io/mustaqahmed/full/gOYxLaL

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Weeknotes 2025-07-21 July 21, 2025, Jochen I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences? Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together. --Kit Yates St...

#Weeknotes: django-cast docs ✓ Voice dictation experiments ✓ Data science podcast recorded ✓ (catching up with my 2 week lag posting those)

https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-21/

More Converge, more betterer! Certainly one of my favourite discoveries in recent years. While I enjoy everyone here, it’s again Ben Koller’s drumming and Nate Newton’s bass playing that fascinate me most. Just listen to that groovy drum rhythm, together with the rather calm bass in “All we love we leave behind”, or this insane drum fill in “Veins and Veils” (again, with a great bass riff). Putting a ride symbol in there like this makes me absolutely addicted, and makes me happy for days.

Bandcamp

Since my Flickr account is not publicly accessible because I don’t want to pay for a Pro account (and there are apparently a couple of “unsafe” images somewhere in my account), I republished my WordCamp Frankfurt photos from 2016 (!) as a gallery on my photoblog.

I also updated the original blog post about the event, and replaced all of the old Twitter links with people’s website/blog URLs. 💪 (Now I want to find and replace ALL Twitter links…)

Let that be a reminder to myself to always post on my own website and link to people’s websites instead of social media profiles whenever possible!

Weeknotes 2025-07-14 July 14, 2025, Jochen I don’t use em dashes because I’m an AI. I use em dashes because I’m pretentious --Jason Lefkowitz This has been a hectic summer, and there's ...

WeekNotes: django-cast gallery nav fixes, tox performance improvements, and why Claude Code is still king after testing the alternatives. Also, I somehow agreed to write about running Django in Electron (send help)

https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-14/

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Weeknotes 2025-07-07 July 7, 2025, Jochen May you find someone who loves you with the same enthusiasm that mainstream tech publications have for the press releases about the latest AI mod...

Published my latest weeknotes. Topics covered: new podcast episode on data class builders, django-cast refactoring (src layout migration, uv build backend, ruff adoption). Read more:

https://wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_blog/weeknotes-2025-07-07/

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@KrijnHoetmer Happy Happy Birthday dear Krijn!!! 🎉🎊🥳🎁🥂 I hope you enjoy a wonderful day ☀️ with your girls - be it at the allotment 🌱 or at the beach 🏖️.