- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:08:42 -0500 (EST)
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- cc: RUST Randal <RRust@COVANSYS.com>, "WAI (E-mail)" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Right, I am not suggesting these things as either or, but "do this and this" so you cover various kinds of half implementations. (For the specific example, 01 and 2002 actually make better sense as defaults - often thinking again about what the information is can be helpful. At least it helps me - I generally need several goes over something to realise basic facts because I had assumed them the first few passes). But basically I agree. cheers Chaals On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Al Gilman wrote: At 11:58 AM 2002-01-31 , Charles McCathieNevile wrote: >Presumably they could hold a default real value. AG:: Sure, but this misses the point. It is not effective in doing what needs to be done and it introduces usability problems. People do stumble on these things. Take the case of a two-digit number field where the question is the expiration month or year of your credit card. The default could be 02 for the month and 02 for the year and neither one captures what the user needs to know, which is "What is the question, here?" Al
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