[thelist] clear form code

[Robert Gormley]

Interestingly, it is that 'bane' of some designers lives, Lynx, where 
this comes in handy. The vast majority of graphical browsers out there 
'select on focus', so you can tab through and override. Lynx does not do 
this, to the best of my knowledge.

I have developed a web-interface (admittedly not the best solution, but 
the one that came closest to meeting business criteria) to aid scorers 
in live reporting of sporting events, that often necessitated the use of 
'reset' functionality - mainly because the application would repopulate 
the form to the 'most likely' next event to be recorded. While you might 
argue that such 'intelligence' is counter-productive, it was able to be 
trained to a large degree, so it enhanced usability, but still, reset 
form functionality was well used. Unfortunately, this training could not 
be realistically extended towards predicting outcomes, more is the pity!

Rob

Ian Anderson wrote:
> Ken Schaefer wrote:
>
>   
>> I've
>> personally used reset buttons on more than one occaision. Not often, but more
>> than "once in a blue moon". I can't speak for anyone else.
>>     
>
> Interesting - so do you remember what situations required the reset?
>
> I have never used one on purpose, but I have clicked them by accident 
> several times.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
>