Cypher, This Line Is Tapped
Posted in Design
I found this peculiar data entry form at Invoice Dealers:
This is what you see in Mozilla. It took me 5 minutes, as opposed to 5 seconds, to figure out how to enter a phone number in this field. It’s quite a novel phone field layout, don’t you think?
Now, pull this up in Internet Explorer 6… Aaaah, that’s what it’s supposed to look like:
What’s the lesson of the day?
10 comments
Jeff Perrin
on April 5, 2005
Always put the following line into your web.config whenever you start a new web project?
Milan Negovan
on April 5, 2005
Well, I don't know about "always". Unfortunately, doing so ain't that easy.
Jeff Perrin
on April 5, 2005
Hmmm, I'd never seen that article of yours... So the only downside is the invalid validation javascript that gets generated? What a pain in the ass. I hate adaptive rendering.
Brent O'Connor
on April 5, 2005
I have to laugh at the novices that made that site. However, the reverse might be true of some of my sites as I might have forgot to check something in IE. :)
Tobias
on April 6, 2005
The lesson is that you should not force a format on the input by splitting it up into multiple input-boxes.
For the adaptive redering, you could use the DomValidators instead of Microsoft’s—that should give you valid javascript.
Daniel Steigerwald
on April 6, 2005
When I would like suggest to user the format of number I use
http://www.eworldui.net/CustomControls/MaskedTextBox.aspx (which of course as every control I use is Mozilla friendly)
Matt
on September 25, 2005
Hey umm this will sound pretty wiered but I would I find out if my phone line is actualy tapped... im asking this since I was googling this type of info and it brought me here! lol!
Anyways so if anyone of you guys would know.. would be appreciated! Thx again
Matt.
Matt
on September 25, 2005
Sorry how would I find out!****
Chris Wallace
on April 5, 2005
Check your site in at least Mozilla and IE.