[thelist] international friendly form

[April]

Well, I do intend to fill out my address properly at E-Commerce sites, if I
intend to buy something.  You know, so I actually get it.

But other than that, I am the proud resident of  5367 Nonexistant Dr.

So as all things on the web are, it's about what the purpose of the form is,
not how it looks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herzog, Ari" <Ari_Herzog at Instron.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] international friendly form


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Handelaar [mailto:john at userfrenzy.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:10 AM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: RE: [thelist] international friendly form
>
> At this point I should draw the honourable member's
> attention to (sssshhhh) Jakob Nielsen's research about
> what proportion of people fill out detailed address
> forms.
>
> My own additional tuppenyworth would suggest that
> the forms are bad enough - but if you start putting
> near-Fascist JS traps all over it [You VILL FILL OUT
> ZIS FORM CORRECTLY] then I'm outta there faster than
> you can say 'Barrier to entry'.
>
> ------Response-------
> Is JS Validation really all that bad?
> I also have some ColdFusion pre-processing/post-submission
> code as well, such as stripping spaces and dashes, etc
> from phone and fax numbers. But to verify the email address
> has an @ and at least one dot, or the country is filled in
> if required, how can that be fascist?
>
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