Why the Gov.uk Design System team changed the input type for numbers (2020)
The article shows an example of a credit card field being a "number". Having made several online purchases, I realized I'm now frustrated by a CC number field that doesn't allow any spaces or dashes, or doesn't format it visually this way for you. They should just allow dashes/spaces then strip it using JS or at the backend.<p>There is a reason that the number printed on the credit card is grouped into 4 digits, and I believe that it makes human parsing easier. When I submit the form and it says "invalid card number", trying to figure out which digit I mistyped into the form while scanning that long string of digits with my eyes, gazing at the card and back at the screen is just stupid.