> Insistence on using number makes me suspect they require sanitation to be done client-side.
Why when they explicitly state that it was done for getting the proper input UX on mobile? The whole article is about finding a good UX for inputting numbers, taking different device types and accessibility concerns into account. It doesn't mention using these for validation at all afaict. Somewhere in this thread one of devs showed up and explicitly stated that they disable all HTML validation on the pages.
Why when they explicitly state that it was done for getting the proper input UX on mobile? The whole article is about finding a good UX for inputting numbers, taking different device types and accessibility concerns into account. It doesn't mention using these for validation at all afaict. Somewhere in this thread one of devs showed up and explicitly stated that they disable all HTML validation on the pages.