UI Fail

[d000hg]

"Ooh, we can make EVERYTHING update using AJAX!!!"

[threaded]

What about getting some offshore outfit to build a web site for a region, say somewhere like Høje Tåstrup, and not allowing the letters æ, ø or å in the address.

But I shouldn't complain.

[Sysman]

What about getting some offshore outfit to build a web site for a region, say somewhere like Høje Tåstrup, and not allowing the letters æ, ø or å in the address.

But I shouldn't complain.

Another example: US format dates 09/07/2009.

[minestrone]

Do you know how much it would cost the UK for Crapita to add that one line of code to remove spaces from the input?

[TimberWolf]

Another example: US format dates 09/07/2009.

9/11, or should I say 11/9

[MPwannadecentincome]

Do you know how much it would cost the UK for Crapita to add that one line of code to remove spaces from the input?

Its not necessarily the cost, there are problably 500+ more urgent issues to resolve that they never get down to the lower priorities

One of the most annoying user interface flaws, IMHO, is when a web site wants a credit or debit card number, and rejects it if you include the spaces that are shown on the card.

I just went to pay a council tax bill, and the form there went one "better": the field for your card number has a JavaScript event handler that actively rejects spaces (along with all other non-numeric characters)

FFS people, this is Usability 101: it's hard for humans to read a string of 16 digits and be sure they got them all correct and/or in the right order. This is why the card is manufactured with spaces in the number dividing it into easy-to-read four digit groups.

If your back-end system wants it without spaces, then strip the spaces on the back-end when you process the input, don't just prevent them being input at all in the user interface. Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy

And who was responsible for providing this chunk of fail? Step forward Crapita, renowned purveyors of barely-functional, badly-designed usability nightmares to the powers-that-be at our expense.

I quite agree but all sites are like this aren't they - I have not seen one site that allows spaces? Maybe I am so used to not entering them now I have not seen which ones will accept them.