William had a problem where his form controls could not be focussed; so you couldn’t click a button. He blamed me for breaking this functionality:
“You added a button which is clickable but you disabled everything else”
I told him it was a simple HTML button with an onClick handler; there was nothing fancy, not even CSS applied to it. I hadn’t changed any other component.
I asked him how he knew it was me that broke it. I asked him if he has verified his outlandish claims by removing the button and seeing if the problem persists.
Of course he hasn’t, he just looked at who had made a change last. I asked him if he had seen it working before – since this was a new page he was adding. He didn’t even seem sure.
Turns out it was some CSS that broke the functionality, but this code had been there a while. No idea why he didn’t notice it before, but it definitely wasn’t my button.
Stranger Coding Tings 